In Canada at least, beer with sales of $7,864,437,000.00 in 2003 is bigger than:
- Total attendance at movie theatres and drive-ins with sales of $1.2 billion in 2002/03: 15.3% of beer.
- All wheat at $2.47 billion: 31.5% of beer.
- The estimated budget of the Government of Nova Scotia for 2003 of $5.327 billion: 68% of beer.
- All charitable giving of $6,500,000,000: 71% of beer.
- Beer is smaller than the military, however, which has a $13.5 billion budget for 2006: 171% of beer in 2003.
