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Consumption. — The following are the latest statistics of consumption 

 in the various countries, deduced for the most part from official docu- 

 ments, and the balance of imports over exports. In the European 

 beetroot sugar-producing States it is not always possible to arrive 

 at correct data of the actual consumption, and those countries with a 

 star (*) affixed are mere rough estimates, being for the most part pro- 

 ducing countries for which there are no reliable returns of con- 

 sumption : 





Year. 



Aggr6gcite Con- 

 sumption. 



Libs, per 

 Head. 



EuEOPE : 





cwts. 







1875 



18,374,543 



62-8 



Holland f . . . 



1874 



800 000 



25-03 



Belgium 



1874 



1,000,000 



23-19 



1873 



1,223,733 



.. 





1874 



6,120,000 



16-6 





1873 



533,831 



33-3 





1873 



630,741 



16-9 





1873 



193,086 



12-7 





1874 



5,000,000 



15-5 





1874 



3,400,000 



15-1 





1873 



381,295 



15-9 





1874 



300,000 



8-4 





1873 



81,817 



•54 





1874 



4,000,000 



5-4 





1874 



500,000 



3-8 





lo/l 



(50,000 



6*6 





1873 



865,350 



8-6, 



Amektca: 











1873 



13,040,500 



37-8 



British America .. .. ..- ^ 



1875 



1,721,386 



51-4 





1874 



642,857 



8-0 





1874 



570,000 



5-61 





1874 



1,000,000 



43-9 



Other South and Central American States* 



1874 



500,000 





West India Islands (British and Foreign)* 



1874 



1,000,000 





Northern and Southern Africa* 



1874 



1,000,000 







1874 



1,713,142 



85-9 



India, China, and the Eastern and Pacific"! 





25,000,000 





t The balance of imports over exports of foreign sugar in 1873 was 44,510 cwts. 



j The balance of imports over exports of foreign and colonial sugar in 1873 was 2,121,900 cwts. 



$ Spain is also a sugar-producing country. 



II The balance of imports over exports of foreign sugar was in 1873, 31,667 cwts. 



The differences of consumption shown in this table are startling, 

 but they are owing not only to variations in the wealth of the 

 countries named, but to those of their clim.ate. Countries in which 

 wine is made and fruit ripens consume less sugar than those situate 

 under more inclement skies. Thus, Austria and Switzerland, though 

 richer than Sweden and Denmark, consume less sugar than the latter, 

 where no wine is made. 



The consumption of sugar has been greatly on the increase in the 

 ifnited Kingdom. In 1875 we imported 16,264,711 cwts. of raw 



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