According to the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting, and Statistics, in 1996 people in the Taiwan area consumed 112,340,000 dozen bottles of alcohol of all kinds, worth a total of NT $ 84.1 billion. The growth rate in consumption has averaged about three percent a year over the past decade.
根據行政院主計處一九九六年的統計，台灣地區一年喝掉一億一千二百三十四萬打各種類的酒，總值為新台幣八百四十一億元，十年來平均成長率為百分之三。