Beer consumption per head in 1873 | |||||
Country | population | total consumption (hl) | proportion per head (litres) | proportion per head (litres) calculated from the other figures | 2003 |
35,644,000 | 12,222,000 | 34.5 | 34.3 | 110.6 | |
24,693,000 | 9,271,900 | 39.5 | 37.5 | 117.7 | |
2,556,000 | 1,545,280 | 60.5 | 60.5 | ||
Other parts of | 4,116,000 | 2,002,990 | 48.5 | 48.7 | |
4,198,000 | 9,207,030 | 219 | 219.3 | ||
Wurtemberg | 1,818,000 | 2,801,080 | 154 | 154.1 | |
1,461,000 | 418,950 | 56 | 28.7 | ||
Alsace-Lorraine | 1,638,000 | 836,310 | 51 | 51.1 | |
30,838,000 | 35,682,590 | 118 | 115.7 | 99.5 | |
4,829,000 | 7,000,000 | 145 | 145.0 | 96 | |
36,103,000 | 7,000,000 | 19 | 19.4 | 35.5 | |
3,652,000 | 1,355,720 | 37 | 37.1 | 78.8 | |
4,159,000 | 520,000 | 14.5 | 12.5 | 55.4 | |
1,701,000 | 253,400 | 12.5 | 14.9 | 50.6 | |
63,659,000 | 9,740,000 | 14 | 15.3 | ||
38,650,000 | 9,982,000 | 26 | 25.8 | 81 | |
Source: | |||||
"Hops their Cultivation Commerce and Uses in Various Countries" by Peter Simmonds, 1877, page 145 | |||||
A couple of notes: the 2003 figure given for Austria and Hungary is just for Austria; that for Prussia is for all of Germany; that for Great Britain and Irealnd is the UK; that for North America is the USA. Some of the numbers in the orignal table don't tally. Which is why I've added my own calculation.
You'll see that beer consumption has increased in most countries. Apart from Bavaria, Belgium and the UK, who were the top three in 1873.
Current consumption in Russia is approx. 60 l. But I am not sure about 1873 numbers, I would not trust any Russian statistics from that period. Each province had its own ways of dealing with numbers, definition of what is brewery and what is not and so on.
ReplyDeleteAs far as know, beer consumption per capita in Western part of the Russia (that also included current Poland, Finland, Baltic States, Belorus) during these years was about 40-60 l and reached its peak just before WWI.
These 1877 Bavarians liked an hour out eh?
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