World beer production in 1913, 1920, 1929—1934

Some more lovely numbers from that Polish trade journal. I hope you enjoy them as mush as I do.

Just a couple of observations. I'm struck by how high up the list Belgium comes. For such a small country, ranking fifth in the world (as it did in both 1913 and 1934)  in terms of beer production is very impressive. Also note how far down the list the Netherlands is, producing not much more than 10% of what Belgium did.

Beer production fell almost everywhere after 1930, doubtless as a result of the worldwide recession. Also in just about every European country output was lower in 1934 than in 1913. One country which did show impressive growth was Japan, going from 100,000 hl in 1913 to almost 1.75 million hl in 1934.

It's weird that in some years more beer was brewed in tiny Luxembourg than in Mexico.

World beer production in 1913, 1920, 1929—1934 (1,000 hl)
Country	1913	1920	1929	1930	1931	1932	1933	1934
USA	76,655	9,384	8,000	28,000	25,000	25,000	39,135	50,248
Germany	69,200	25,618	57,028	48,486	37,093	33,581	34,132	36,838
United Kingdom	58,805	44,822	31,789	30,770	26,788	21,639	23,414	25,388
Austria	22,709	600	5,275	5,083	4,385	3,058	2,522	2,419
Belgium	16,727	10,407	15,377	16,662	18,377	15,558	14,400	13,800
France	12,844	11,548	17,555	18,314	18,577	17,627	17,700	16,743
Czechoslovakia	—	3,874	12,162	11,410	10,380	9,648	7,964	7,990
Russia')	10,138	—	2,000	3,000	4,510	3,000	3,700	3,700
Ireland	—	—	3,480	3,663	3,129	2,779	2,941	2,924
Australia	2,936	2,852	3,350	3,025	2,529	2,265	2,387	—
Switzerland	2,969	1,068	2,541	2,610	2,621	2,526	2,419	2,465
Sweden	2,706	2,021	2,052	2,982	2,835	2,806	2,418	2,429
Poland	—	—	2,786	2,516	1,931	1,400	1,058	1,102
Denmark	2,465	2,374	2,118	2,291	2,212	2,005	2,023	2,161
Canada	2,353	1,680	2,793	2,653	2,100	1,950	1,707	—
Netherlands	1,780	1,200	2,273	2,316	2,280	2,103	1,609	1,513
Argentina	1,000	1,493	1,981	2,132	1,828	1,158	1,308	1,344
Brazil	700	819	1,766	1,766	1,456	850	900	925
Italy	673	949	1,127	902	718	397	339	372
Hungary	—	491	602	446	312	184	165	167
Yugoslavia	—	600	600	600	540	319	215	210
Norway	515	894	509	525	417	425	398	401
Mexico	500	300	680	720	719	418	520	673
Luxembourg	—	—	525	563	496	426	407	423
Chile	490	413	520	494	371	367	390	444
New Zealand	454	—	582	580	523	444	401	402
Japan	100	1,250	1,600	1,633	1,368	1,379	1,688	1,747
Romania	314	169	867	632	418	418	358	433
Finland	—	—	333	424	335	296	292	346
South Africa	300	350	349	323	314	273	270	327
Spain	310	302	744	794	744	719	632	749
Cuba	255	200	402	204	158	160	173	233
Bulgaria	166	139	84	51	48	91	60	46
India	170	161	118	95	88	81	69	—
Latvia	—	—	95	89	71	62	62	76
Lithuania	—	—	101	115	113	72	70	60
Turkey	97	100	40	41	36	32	23	22
Estonia	—	—	89	69	58	52	60	51
China	80	61	60	96	83	101	98	105
Uruguay	79	89	190	152	147	120	103	116
Peru	65	156	130	144	104	70	69	88
Ecuador	55	57	82	80	60	47	53	65
Colombia	55	85	315	200	130	142	200	375
Egypt	52	70	73	57	49	39	45	53
Bolivia	50	98	82	66	49	42	46	46
Gdansk	—	—	—	—	48	77	74	81
Portugal	40	56	100	83	59	56	59	55
Philippines	38	54	40	40	40	40	40	35
Algiers	35	35	100	140	140	108	113	91
Venezuela	35	30	150	111	118	65	71	55
Panama.	30	50	75	81	91	88	75	68
Belgian Congo	—	—	22	32	22	13	13	13
Paraguay	28	24	19	19	12	10	10	7
Greece	25	30	69	95	85	66	54	77
San Salvador	—	—	20	20	16	22	24	24
Costa Rica	—	—	18	15	12	10	14	11
Guatemala	15	10	30	11	10	7	9	8
Source:
Przegląd Piwowarsko-Słodowniczy: organ Związku Piwowarów w Polsce 1935 wrzesień R.1 Nr1, page 14.