Volume Units

Everything in Millions

Consumption and stamp volumes are shown in millions throughout the platform, so figures can be compared at a glance. Table column headers carry the unit — for example Estimated Stamp Volume (millions) — and single figures outside a table carry an M suffix, such as Annual Volume: 0.08M.

Why a Conversion Is Needed

Our source data reports spirits, cider/perry and ready-to-drink beverages in thousands, and all other categories in millions. The platform stores each figure exactly as supplied and converts it to millions only for display, so no precision is lost.

Precision and Small Volumes

The number of decimal places adapts to the size of the figure:

• 100 million or more — no decimals (e.g. 122,476)
• 1 to 100 million — one decimal (e.g. 17.5)
• Below 1 million — two decimals (e.g. 0.08, about 80,000 units)
• Below 10,000 units — shown as <0.01 rather than rounding to zero

A 0 means a recorded volume of zero; a dash (-) means no figure is recorded.

Seeing the Original Units

If you prefer figures exactly as supplied, open My Profile and, under Display preferences, set Show volumes to As supplied. Volumes then appear with a K (thousands) or M (millions) suffix, and tables add a Volume In column showing the unit of each row. The setting applies only to your own account and can be changed back at any time.

Excel Export

The Tax Stamp Programmes Excel export follows the same setting: in millions it contains a single Annual Volume (millions) column at full precision; as supplied, it contains the original Annual Volume and its Volume Multiplier.