8 Countries that Produce the Most Bottled Water in the World

Thirsty for some info on water? Wondering which are the 8 Countries that Produce the Most Bottled Water in the World?

Drinking bottled water has become a feature of a healthy lifestyle and surely a recognizable sign of people who care about their health and the quality of the food they consume. Many countries in the world have clean water to take pride in and some of them have recognized the great opportunity to sell pure and clean water. You would particularly be in need if you didn’t live in one of the 12 Countries with the Cleanest Tap Water.

Some of these specific water brands have never been popular among the big exporters, while some of them were from countries without a popular industry or large infrastructure. But, it seems that having a source of natural and pure water is enough to increase the number of products which can be exported to other countries.

Finding the countries with the biggest production of bottled water for this list was not easy, because there are no statistic data about the bottle production of each country in the world. There is a list of the biggest exporters of bottled water in the world, but that research is from 2008, so it should be taken cautiously as the parameter for this list. More importantly, the country which sells most bottled water in the world does not necessarily have to be the country with the biggest production. We know that market rules determine the way how some product will be promoted all around the world, so defining a country which sells the most bottled water in the world is simply not enough for the conclusion that it’s also the largest producer of bottled water. However, you will notice that some countries on our list are also among the biggest exporters marked on the chart from 2008, as it is logical that that are some overlaps.

We found a list of the most popular water sellers with the highest profit in 2015. Many of those companies actually have facilities in many different countries, so we started from there. To make a more precise list, we took two lists from previous years and combined them with the first one. That provided us information about the companies with a long tradition and durability on the market, which is also a way to define the most popular and sold water in the world. The list of the most sold brands of bottled water contains the names of these companies (in this order) – Nestle, Hangzhou Wahaha Group, Danone, Apollinaris mineral water, Gerolsteiner mineral water, The Coca-Cola, Nonafu springs, Tingui Cayman Holding, Pepsi Co, Cr Beverages, Natural Water of Viti and Bisleri International.

Now, when we have all the relevant information, we consulted the manufacturers’ official sites about the countries where their companies produce bottled water and made a list of the countries with most producers of bottled water there. The number of producers had decided which country will be the higher place on the list, while in some specific cases, where two countries had the same numbers of companies, we included information from the chart from 2008 or the position on the list of most popular water in 2015. That’s, in short, a way how we came to the list of 8 countries that produce the most bottled water in the world.

Just for the fun of reading, you may want to compare this list with 12 Countries with the Cleanest Tap Water, to see if there are any overlaps.

Without further ado, let’s see what are the countries that produce the most bottled water in the world?

8. India

Number of companies – 1

Bisleri water is natural mountain water with added minerals and it represents a synonym for the Indian natural bottled water. Their products, including water, pass through the very serious process of purification in six steps. The official information is that the company earns 94.6 million dollars per year.

7. Taiwan

Number of companies – 1

The only reason why this country is one place higher in the list of countries that produce the most bottled water in the world than the previous one is the fact that their company, Tingyi Cayman Holding is in the sixth place on the list of the bestsellers of bottled water in the world. The company is settled in Taiwan although the headquarters are situated in China. Water comes from the Chinghai Mountains in China and the company’s annual earnings are 1330.668 million dollars.

6. Fiji

Number of companies – 2

The companies in this country are Natural Water of Viti and Fiji Natural. The producer of Natural Water of Viti claims that it is the purest water in the world, taken from one of the biggest Fiji island, Viti Levu. This water is pumped from the artesian aquifer, and it is purified without changing its original taste and composition.

5. Germany

Number of companies – 2

It is interesting that two German companies are in the highest position on the list of companies which have sold most bottled water for the last five years, and as a result, this country is perceived as one of the biggest producers and exporters of bottled water in the world. We choose to put it on the fifth place on this list of 8 countries that produce the most bottled water in the world because of its companies’ stability and durability on the market, even though these companies are not on the list of those with the most sold water in 2015. The Apollinaris mineral water and Gerolsteiner mineral water have always been on the list of the most popular bottled water brands in the world. They were also on the chart of the biggest exporters in 2008.

4. Italy

Number of companies – 4

The reason why this country occupies the fourth place on this list of countries that produce the most bottled water in the world is that a certain number of these companies are situated there, plus the fact that three of these companies are completely independent. Apart from the Nestle water and Ferrarelle Naturally Spring mineral water, the manufacturer of the most popular bottled water – Sole Natural mineral water – is also found on the list.

3. China

Number of companies – 5

Unsurprisingly, China was one of the biggest exporters in the world in 2008, as can be seen on the chart. Its companies Hangzhou Wahaha Group, Cr Beverages, Danone and Nonafu springs are supported by a part of the above-mentioned Tingyi Cayman Holding from Taiwan. Estimated earnings of China according to the chart from 2008 are more than 500 hundred of dollars.

2. France

Number of companies – 7

The companies situated in this country are Nestle, Danone, Evian, Perrier natural water, Volvic natural spring water, Badoit, and Vittel. It is also the country which occupied the first place in the chart from 2008 as the country which exports most bottled water in the world.

1. U.S.

Number of companies – 9

The U.S. occupies the first place on the list of 8 countries that produce the most bottled water in the world with even nine companies from the lists of the most popular or best sold bottled waters in the world. The companies situated in the USA are Nestle, The Coca-Cola, Pepsi Co, Mountain Valley spring water, American Summits spring water, Apollinaris mineral water, Hilton natural mineral water, Smeraldina Artesian water and Waiakea Hawai Volcanic water.