Alcohol in China: Beer before wine?
Alcohol in China: Beer before wine?
Apr 25, 2011
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There's been plenty of web chatter lately about a very serious topic of global economics: beer drinking.
Both the Economix blog on the New York Times, and economics blogger Felix Salmon of Reuters have poured over beer consumption data from around the world.
In particular the focus has been on China, where annual consumption has ballooned from a half bottle of beer in 1961 to almost 103 beers per adult in 2007.
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