The amount of beer produced by these 36,502 breweries is estimated at considerably over 150,000,000 barrels annually.
Gallons of Liquor Consumed Annually by the World Today
| Wine | Beer | Spirits | |
| Australia | 7,925,000 | 47,976,000 | 3,297,000 |
| Austria-Hungary | 192,800,000 | 545,674,043 | 120,000,000 |
| Belgium | 8,948,200 | 395,285,258 | 9,895,000 |
| Bulgaria | 29,100,000 | 946,000 | 770,000 |
| Denmark | 63,213,000 | 4,000,000 | |
| Dominion of Canada | 1,386,235 | 39,896,636 | 6,054,790 |
| France | 1,710,900,000 | 289,103,000 | 97,177,968 |
| German Empire | 79,600,000 | 1,782,778,000 | 124,313,300 |
| Holland | 1,980,000 | 9,328,000 | |
| Italy | 856,520,000 | 6,725,000 | 11,150,400 |
| New Zealand | 126,000 | 7,381,000 | 602,000 |
| Newfoundland | 7,200 | 312,000 | 364,000 |
| Norway | 8,756,000 | 1,672,000 | |
| Portugal | 108,320,000 | ||
| Roumania | 52,840,000 | 1,320,000 | 6,996,000 |
| Russian Empire | 76,620,000 | 151,633,892 | 232,813,382 |
| Servia | 6,605,000 | ||
| Spain | 428,000,000 | 20,000,000 | |
| Sweden | 898,200 | 44,440,000 | 10,730,500 |
| Switzerland | 22,190,000 | 45,452,000 | |
| United Kingdom | 26,349,873 | 1,021,123,632 | 38,133,721 |
| United States | 62,000,000 | 1,851,342,256 | 133,538,684 |
| Total | 3,673,115,708 | 6,323,357,717 | 810,836,745 |
Grand total, 10,807,310,170 gallons.—American Prohibition Year Book, 1912.
Comparative Annual Cost of Liquor and Other Things in the United States
| Intoxicating liquor | $1,752,000,000 |
| Tobacco | 1,200,000,000 |
| Iron and steel | 1,035,000,000 |
| Jewelry and plate | 800,000,000 |
| Printing and publishing | 750,000,000 |
| Lumber | 700,000,000 |
| Cotton goods | 675,000,000 |
| Automobiles | 500,000,000 |
| Woolen and worsted goods | 475,000,000 |
| Flour | 455,000,000 |
| Boots and shoes | 450,000,000 |
| Panama Canal | 400,000,000 |
| Public education | 371,000,000 |
| Sugar and molasses | 310,000,000 |
| Furniture | 245,000,000 |
| Silk goods | 240,000,000 |
| Potatoes. | 210,000,000 |
| Confectionery | 200,000,000 |
| Church and home work | 175,000,000 |
| Soft drinks | 120,000,000 |
| Tea and coffee | 100,000,000 |
| Brick | 100,000,000 |
| Millinery | 90,000,000 |
| Patent medicines | 80,000,000 |
| Chewing-gum | 13,000,000 |
| Foreign missions | 12,000,000 |
Notes.—“Grape-Juice has killed more people than grape-shot.”—Spurgeon.
“O that men should put an enemy in their mouths, to steal away their brains!”—Shakespeare.
“The liquor traffic is the most degrading and ruinous of all human pursuits.”—William McKinley.
“All its history is written in tears and blood.”—Robert J. Burdette.