Friday 29 January 2021

Some WW II tables

My new book has lots of tables. Too many, probably. But I do love a good table. Or a mediocre one. Even a bad one. I'm sure the book has some of those.

Here are a couple I added this week. relating to beer production straddling the years of WW II. Sadly, only for a small selection of countries.

World beer production 1938 - 1942 (1,000 barrels)
Country 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942
U.K. 24,035 25,532 25,499 29,101 29,170
Australasia 2,809 2,960 3,117 3,451 3,595
Canada 1,759 1,847 2,195 2,808 3,027
U.S.A. 40,393 38,623 39,355 39,586 45,682
Belgium 8,454 7,890 6,252 3,648 3,114
Czechoslovakia 3,839 4,054 3,659 3,818 3,833
France 14,102 11,140 11,089 9,106 2,676
Germany 29,395 31,326 29,774 28,733 25,976
Other 17,327 18,693 18,252 19,492 18,391
Total 142,611 142,064 139,192 139,742 135,465
Source:
Brewers' Almanack 1951-52, page 58.


World beer production 1943 - 1947 (1,000 barrels)
Country 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947
U.K. 29,956 31,472 32,667 30,580 29,802
Australasia 3,423 3,510 3,587 3,804 4,322
Canada 2,891 3,403 3,859 4,328 4,811
U.S.A. 50,916 58,593 62,091 60,925 62,989
Belgium 2,970 2,943 4,809 6,600 7,696
Czechoslovakia 3,512 3,413 4,534 4,538 5,405
France 8,657 7,970 5,656 6,768 7,373
Germany 26,496 10,743 10,785
Other 18,437 20,805 27,089
Total 147,258 149,091 160,273
Source:
Brewers' Almanack 1951-52, page 58.

Quite easy to spot which countries were on the winning side.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It's interesting to see Canada and Australia take off. I'd be curious if it was due to a big drop of imported beer from the UK, or if was more like the US which was probably a combination of an end to the depression and a huge increase of money in the pockets of consumers from all of the wartime employment.