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17-08-2014, 07:12
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Another nifty title, don't you think?
I've managed to spin yet more thread from that tangled clump of numbers. This time adding population figures to come up with figures for beer output per head of population. I've found it very instructive.
I'm going to repeat the map of Autro-Hungarian provinces as otherwise the table won't much sense to most of you. Me, I'm becoming pointlessly familiar with the administrative divisions of the Empire.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XVHs4g7gs6I/U-NSpurMZmI/AAAAAAAAUT0/zkXabgc2xkI/s1600/Austrian_Provinces.jpg (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XVHs4g7gs6I/U-NSpurMZmI/AAAAAAAAUT0/zkXabgc2xkI/s1600/Austrian_Provinces.jpg)
Now the numbers:
Austrian beer output per head per province in 1888
Province
population
beer output
litres/head
Salzburg
169,500
299,968
176.97
Upper Austria
773,700
946,991
122.40
Lower Austria
2,552,400
2,609,744
102.25
Bohemia
5,757,800
5,487,030
95.30
Styria
1,261,000
660,141
52.35
Silesia
590,500
306,074
51.83
Moravia
2,212,000
1,085,076
49.05
Carinthia
357,300
141,212
39.52
Tirol und Vorarlberg
916,200
266,871
29.13
Galicia
6,370,800
708,373
11.12
Carniola
498,000
49,225
9.88
Bukovina
627,900
58,806
9.37
Hungary and Siebenbergen
14,715,900
490,831
3.34
Croatia and Slavonia
2,065,900
10,962
0.53
Kustenland
680,200
1,054
0.15
total Austria
41,466,600
13,142,429
31.69
Salzburg is the unexpected winner. Not because its beer output was huge, but because its population was small. The converse was true of Bohemia: it pproduced easily the most beer, but also had opne of the largest populations. Something I noticed: the population of the Czech Republic is now scarcely great than in 1888. Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia come to about 8.5 million. The current population is about 10 million.
You can see beer production was ridiculously concentrated in the top left hand corner of the Empire. Basically the areas with a majority Czech- or German-speaking population. Not a shock, really, but it's always nice to have hard evidence.
More... (http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2014/08/austrian-beer-output-per-head-per.html)
Another nifty title, don't you think?
I've managed to spin yet more thread from that tangled clump of numbers. This time adding population figures to come up with figures for beer output per head of population. I've found it very instructive.
I'm going to repeat the map of Autro-Hungarian provinces as otherwise the table won't much sense to most of you. Me, I'm becoming pointlessly familiar with the administrative divisions of the Empire.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XVHs4g7gs6I/U-NSpurMZmI/AAAAAAAAUT0/zkXabgc2xkI/s1600/Austrian_Provinces.jpg (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XVHs4g7gs6I/U-NSpurMZmI/AAAAAAAAUT0/zkXabgc2xkI/s1600/Austrian_Provinces.jpg)
Now the numbers:
Austrian beer output per head per province in 1888
Province
population
beer output
litres/head
Salzburg
169,500
299,968
176.97
Upper Austria
773,700
946,991
122.40
Lower Austria
2,552,400
2,609,744
102.25
Bohemia
5,757,800
5,487,030
95.30
Styria
1,261,000
660,141
52.35
Silesia
590,500
306,074
51.83
Moravia
2,212,000
1,085,076
49.05
Carinthia
357,300
141,212
39.52
Tirol und Vorarlberg
916,200
266,871
29.13
Galicia
6,370,800
708,373
11.12
Carniola
498,000
49,225
9.88
Bukovina
627,900
58,806
9.37
Hungary and Siebenbergen
14,715,900
490,831
3.34
Croatia and Slavonia
2,065,900
10,962
0.53
Kustenland
680,200
1,054
0.15
total Austria
41,466,600
13,142,429
31.69
Salzburg is the unexpected winner. Not because its beer output was huge, but because its population was small. The converse was true of Bohemia: it pproduced easily the most beer, but also had opne of the largest populations. Something I noticed: the population of the Czech Republic is now scarcely great than in 1888. Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia come to about 8.5 million. The current population is about 10 million.
You can see beer production was ridiculously concentrated in the top left hand corner of the Empire. Basically the areas with a majority Czech- or German-speaking population. Not a shock, really, but it's always nice to have hard evidence.
More... (http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2014/08/austrian-beer-output-per-head-per.html)