Soda Pop Sales

Most students I know, love their soda.  I've seen some go though 6 to 8 cans during a single school day.  I agree it is way too much and they spend around $1.25 per can so it adds up.  I'd love to let students check out statistics for soda and use that information to create graphs.

According to an article in Motley Fool, the number of cans of soda pop has been in a decline recently.  In fact, this decline began in 2004 and has continued every year since then.  The four brands that are the most popular are:  Coca Cola with an 18% share among sodas, Pepsi is in second place but it lost its contract with Arby's to Coca Cola.  Followed by Diet Coca Cola and Mountain Dew.

This site allows you to choose soda statistics either world wide or for a specific country and then it shows much of the information in graphic form so students have a chance to learn to interpret the information.

I looked at only the soda sold in the United States but it showed information for both carbonated and non-carbonated.  The nice thing is that I could choose one or the other if I wanted to look at more detailed information.

It states revenue for carbonated soda is $164,340 million which breaks down to about $499.91 per capita.  This gives the teacher a chance to check on the reasonableness of this.  It might sound reasonable but the reality is the many people such as myself so not drink soda so many people spend way more  to have it average that way.

The article goes on to say that the most revenue is generated in the United States.  This leads to a question of why might that be.  We know its our population but are students able to connect population with consumption?  The average per capita consumption is about 167.6 liters in the United States.

The first graph shows how the $164,340 million revenue is divide between home consumption and non-home consumption.  It breaks down to about double the amount is consumed out of the house as the amount consumed at home.  It also breaks down the revenue per capita into home consumption and that consumed outside of the home.  Although the revenue has been increasing the amount by volume has been decreasing especially for what is consumed at home and the average per capita volume is also decreasing, more is still being consumed at home.

In addition, you can click on a world map to see how much each country consumes.  What I found quite interesting is that Brazil is in second place for both carbonated and non-carbonated at just over $53,500 million as compared to the $245,000 million of the United States.  That is quite a big difference but Brazil has 209 million people compared to the United States with 345 million.

It would be interesting to do some comparisons between Brazil and the United States.  Let me know what you think, I'd love to hear.  Have a great day.