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Sugar Consumption in the
United States
HE people of the United States
consume half their own
weight in sugar every year.
This may seem a startling
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statement, but if we take the quanti
ty of sugar produced in the United
States and add to this the quantity
brought from our own islands and
the quantity imported from foreign
countries, and subtract therefrom the
amount exported, we get a grand
total of considerably more than 7bil
lion pounds consumed in the country;
and by dividing the population into
this grand total, we get an average
of 81% pounds per capita, speaking
in round terms, for 1910, and about
a like quantity for 1909. It is not
assumed, of course, that each person
necessarily consumes sugar equal to
one-half his individual weight; but
taking the total consumption and
comparing it with the total popula
tion in the section known as conti
nental United States, the average
yearly consumption of sugar is
found to be about 81% pounds per
capita.
In fact, the people of the United
States are larger consumers of sugar
per capita than those of any other
country of the world except England,
for which the latest figures show a
consumption averaging 86 pounds
per capita, against our own average
of 81% pounds per capita. The next
largest per capita consumption is in
Denmark, 77% pounds; followed by
Switzerland, 64 pounds; Sweden, 54
pounds; and Germany and Holland,
each about 43% pounds.
Not only is the United States the
second largest sugar consumer per
capita, but the total amount consum
ed annually is much greater than
that of any other country, aggregat
ing, as above indicated, more than
7 billion pounds per annum, against
about 4 billion pounds in England
and about 3 billion pounds in Ger
many.
About one-half of the sugar con
sumed in the United states is brought
from foreign countries, about one
fourth from our own islands, and the
remaining one-fourth produced in
this country. The total production
of sugar in the United States now
amounts to 1 % billion pounds a year,
of which more than 1 billion pounds
is beet sugar and about three-quart
ers of a billion cane sugar. It is
only recently that the production of
'beet sugar in the United States has
come ta exceed that of cane sugar.
In 1900 domestic production of cane
sugar was twice as great as that of
beet sugar, and 20 years ago was
more than 60 times as great; but
the growth of beet sugar production
has been very rapid in recent years,
and in 190 7, for the first time, ex
ceeded in quantity that production
from cane and has so continued since
that time.
Os the sugar brought from other
countries, nearly all is made from
cane. While about half of the
world’s sugar is made from beets,
most of it is produced in Europe and
consumed in the country of produc
tion or in other parts of that grand
division, while most of the world
outside of Europe obtains its sugar
supply from cane, grown of course,
in the tropical and subtropical sec
tions. Os the cane sugar which we
consume, most of that coming from
foreign countries is drawn from Cuba,
the Dutch East Indies, and smaller
amounts from the West Indies, Mex
ico Central and South America. All
of that coming from our own islands
—Porto Rico, Hawaii, arijd the Phil
ippines—is cane sugar, while of the
domestic product about 40 per cent
is produced from cane. The best
sugar of the United States is
chiefly in Colorado, California, and
Michigan, and some in Utah, Idaho,
and Wisconsin; while most of the
cane sugar is produced in Louisiana,
with smaller quantities in Texas,
Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.
The sugar “habiH.’ $s /evidently
a growing one with the people of the
THE JEFFERSONIAN
United States and probably with
those of other countries, since the
total world production of sugar, in
cluding all countries for which sta
tistics are available, has increased 50
per cent in the last decade and about
double in 15 years. In our own case
the consumption has shown a rapid
growth, the per capita consumption
having been, in 1880, 40 pounds; in
1890, 51 pounds; in 1900, approx
imately 81% pounds.
What is the cost of this enormous
quantity of sugar consumed in the
United States? This more difficult
to answer. The valuation of that
brought from foreign countries and
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our islands is set down at about 175
million dollars in 1910, and the stat
ed value of the production in the
United States, at approximately 75
million dollars; though this compar
tively high figure when considered
by the price per pound, is due to the
fact that the valuation is based upon
the refined article, while that of the
sugar from abroad is the value of the
unrefined article in the country of
production. If, however, we accept
a general average of 5 cents ptr
pound as the retail price paid by our
people for the 7 1-3 billion pounds of
sugar consumed by them in 1910, we
should get a total of $366,000,000, or
an average of approximately SI,OOO,
000 a day paid for sugar by the peo
ple of the United States.
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