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Americans consume 15.7 million gallons of beer and ale each day is this a lot?
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∙ 16y ago
Depends on how you look at it. 15.7 million gallons is indeed a lot.
But the U.S. population according to the 2000 census was 281,421,906.
That comes to .0557 gallons per person in the entire country. That is definitely NOT a lot.
However, some of those people are definitely underage. Let's assume (hah!) that no one drinks who is not legally allowed to. Further since some states allow drinking at 18 and others not until 21 (and since I'm not going to research THAT deeply) let's eliminate everybody under the age of 20.
Again, according to the 2000 census, there were 96,808,352 males and 104,140,229 females for a total of 200,948,581 people age 20 or older. I'm also NOT going to research how much men drink compared to women, so for the sake of the math (and my two typing fingers) let's just say it's about even.
SO - 15.7 million gallons of beer consumed by 200,648,581 people comes to only .0781 gallons per person. Still not a whole lot.
The table shown here: http://www.britannica.com/eb/table?tocId=9390287
(showing that my math is somewhat faulty) gives the consumption of various Alcoholic Beverages per capita in liters and will give you some idea of our consumption habits when related to the rest of the world. A liter is a little more than a quart - YOU do the math!
Hope this answers your question. I'm through. I'm going to go have a beer!
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