List of countries by alcohol consumption per capita

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World Health Organization (WHO) data

The World Health Organization periodically publishes The Global Status Report on Alcohol:

  • The report was first published by WHO in 1999 with data from 1996.[1]
  • The second report was released in 2004, published with data from 2003.[2]
  • The third report was published in 2011, with data from 2010.[3]
  • The fourth global report was published in 2014, using data from 2010.[4]
  • The fifth global report was published in 2018, with data from 2016.[5]
  • The sixth global report was published in 2024, with data from 2019.[6]

Worldwide

Percentage of current drinkers among the total population (15+ years)[7]
2000 2005 2010 2016 2019[8]
47.6%45.1%45.5%43%44%

Countries

Worldwide annual consumption in 2019 was equal to 5.5 litres of pure alcohol consumed per person aged 15 years or older.[6] This is a decrease from the 5.7 litres in 2010. Distilled alcoholic beverages are the most consumed, followed by beer and wines. The regions with the highest consumption are the WHO European Region (9.2 litres) and the Region of the Americas (7.5 litres). |+Recorded annual consumption of pure alcohol (litres) per person 15 years of age and over

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Country1996[9]2016[10] 2019[6][a]
 Afghanistan0.2 0.2
 Albania2.597.5 5.1
 Algeria0.270.9 0.6
 Andorra11.3 11.1
 Angola1.586.4 6.2
 Antigua and Barbuda7.0 8.5
 Argentina9.589.8 8.0
 Armenia0.845.5 5.0
 Australia9.5510.6 10.1
 Austria11.9011.6 12.0
 Azerbaijan4.160.8 2.0
 Bahamas4.4 4.4
 Bahrain1.9 1.6
 Bangladesh0.0 0.1
 Barbados8.379.6 9.5
 Bhutan0.6 0.2
 Belarus8.1411.2 10.9
 Belgium10.9412.1 10.3
 Belize5.856.7 5.7
 Benin1.393.0 8.3
 Bolivia3.354.8 4.1
 Bosnia and Herzegovina8.256.4 6.4
 Botswana2.688.4 8.2
 Brazil5.577.8 7.7
 Brunei0.750.4 0.4
 Bulgaria9.5212.7 11.9
 Burkina Faso0.458.2 9.8
 Burundi1.177.5 4.1
 Cambodia0.346.7 8.5
 Cameroon1.588.9 10.1
 Canada7.528.9 9.9
 Cape Verde3.865.7 6.3
 Central African Republic0.703.3 2.0
 Chad0.231.5 3.7
 Chile7.069.3 6.7
 China5.397.2 5.7
 Colombia6.415.8 4.9
 Comoros0.9 0.3
 Congo1.567.8 6.4
 Cook Islands10.6 10.6
 Costa Rica5.724.8 3.5
 Ivory Coast1.438.4 2.8
 Croatia11.758.9 8.5
 Cuba3.536.1 6.0
 Cyprus10.0010.8 8.1
 Czech Republic14.3514.4 13.3
 Denmark12.1510.4 9.4
 Djibouti0.470.5 0.4
 Dominica8.2 6.1
 Dominican Republic5.906.9 6.8
 DR Congo0.212.6 2.1
 Ecuador1.664.4 3.3
 Egypt0.530.4 0.1
 Equatorial Guinea11.3 6.9
 El Salvador2.543.7 3.3
 Eritrea0.951.3 1.2
 Estonia[b]8.0711.6 11.3
 Eswatini[c]1.189.9 8.1
 Ethiopia1.022.8 3.4
 Fiji1.823.0 3.4
 Finland8.2610.7 9.2
 France13.7412.6 11.3
 Gabon6.7611.5 7.3
 Gambia0.163.8 1.1
 Georgia4.509.8 14.3
 Germany11.6713.4 12.2
 Ghana0.412.7 4.5
 Greece10.4110.4 7.1
 Grenada9.3 8.1
 Guatemala1.992.4 1.6
 Guinea0.171.3 0.5
 Guinea-Bissau1.594.8 4.1
 Guyana14.036.3 5.3
 Haiti6.555.8 3.5
 Honduras2.414.0 3.2
 Hungary12.8511.4 10.6
 Iceland4.889.1 8.1
 India0.995.7 4.9
 Indonesia0.130.8 0.1
 Iran1.0 0.7
 Iraq0.610.4 0.2
 Ireland11.9013.0 11.7
 Israel1.753.8 3.0
 Italy9.627.5 8.0
 Jamaica3.904.2 3.6
 Japan7.858.0 6.7
 Jordan0.7 0.3
 Kazakhstan7.717.7 4.5
 Kenya1.663.4 2.9
 Kiribati0.4 0.8
 Kuwait0.0 0.1
 Kyrgyzstan2.206.2 5.0
 Laos4.1210.4 11.5
 Latvia8.7012.9 13.1
 Lebanon5.431.5 1.5
 Lesotho1.125.0 4.5
 Liberia5.685.8 3.6
 Libya0.0 0.1
 Lithuania6.2315.0 11.8
 Luxembourg14.3513.0 11.5
 Macedonia4.868.1 4.6
 Madagascar1.251.9 1.0
 Malawi0.423.7 3.2
 Malaysia0.870.9 0.8
 Maldives2.082.7 1.4
 Mali1.3 4.3
 Malta6.918.1 8.5
 Mauritania0.0 0.1
 Mauritius4.333.6 7.5
 Mexico5.046.5 5.7
 Federated States of Micronesia2.5 2.1
 Moldova8.6215.2 11.4
 Mongolia1.957.4 7.9
 Montenegro8.0 10.3
 Morocco0.580.6 0.5
 Mozambique0.452.4 2.0
 Myanmar0.214.8 2.1
 Namibia9.8 5.9
 Nauru6.0 2.9
   Nepal2.0 1.4
 Netherlands9.808.7 9.3
 Netherlands Antilles8.78
 New Caledonia11.26
 New Zealand8.8510.7 9.9
 Nicaragua2.345.2 4.2
 Niger0.5 0.1
 Nigeria0.6613.4 4.2
 Niue7.0 9.3
 North Korea2.563.9 4.3
 Norway4.977.5 6.8
 Oman0.8 0.9
 Pakistan0.3 0.1
 Panama5.747.9 6.6
 Papua New Guinea1.021.2 1.7
 Paraguay9.717.2 5.6
 Peru4.006.3 7.5
 Philippines6.776.6 6.2
 Poland7.9311.6 11.6
 Portugal13.5712.3 10.4
 Qatar2.0 1.1
 Romania10.8812.6 17.0
 Russia8.0811.7 10.4
 Rwanda0.719.0 1.9
 Saint Kitts and Nevis9.4 6.3
 Saint Lucia9.9 9.5
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines8.2 7.2
 Samoa2.5 2.4
 São Tomé and Príncipe6.8 5.0
 Saudi Arabia0.2 0.1
 Senegal0.410.7 0.4
 Serbia11.1 7.9
 Seychelles13.8 12.0
 Sierra Leone5.7 0.3
 Singapore2.102.5 1.9
 Slovakia13.0011.5 10.5
 Slovenia15.1512.6 11.0
 Solomon Islands0.561.4 1.6
 Somalia0.0 0.1
 South Africa7.729.3 8.8
 South Korea14.4010.2 8.2
 Spain11.0910.0 10.9
 Sri Lanka0.214.3 2.8
 Sudan0.260.5 0.1
 Suriname4.685.1 6.6
 Syria0.210.3 0.2
 Sweden6.049.2 9.3
  Switzerland11.2711.5 10.4
 Tajikistan1.783.3 0.9
 Tanzania0.609.4 10.4
 Thailand8.648.3 7.8
 Timor-Leste2.1 0.4
 Togo1.013.1 1.4
 Tonga1.5 0.4
 Trinidad and Tobago3.698.4 6.1
 Tunisia0.891.9 2.0
 Turkey1.352.0 1.8
 Turkmenistan1.175.4 2.9
 Tuvalu1.7 1.2
 Uganda0.469.5 12.2
 Ukraine2.318.6 8.7
 United Arab Emirates3.063.8 2.4
 United Kingdom11.4 10.8
 United States8.909.8 9.6
 Uruguay8.1710.8 5.5
 Uzbekistan1.552.7 2.6
 Vanuatu0.961.0 1.9
 Venezuela9.415.6 3.0
 Vietnam1.218.3 9.3
 Yemen0.150.1 0.1
 Zambia0.634.8 3.9
 Zimbabwe2.784.8 3.6
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  1. Three year average of 2017, 2018, and 2019
  2. 1996 Estimates for Estonia are from 1995.
  3. Officially named Swaziland until April 2018

Consumption by type of alcoholic beverage (2019 data)

The table below for 189 countries uses 2019 data (three-year average of 2017, 2018, and 2019) from the WHO report published in 2024.[6] The recorded consumption values were based on data from government sources, statistics from economic operators, and FAOSTAT data and estimates the amount of alcohol consumption (in litres of pure alcohol) by persons 15 years of age or older. Unrecorded consumption (homebrew, moonshine, smuggled alcohol, surrogate alcohol etc.) was estimated using expert judgements and surveys. The total consumption (sum of recorded and unrecorded) is then broken down by type of alcoholic beverage. Beer refers to malt beer, wine refers to grape wine, spirits refers to all distilled beverages such as vodka and similar products, and the column "other" refers to all other alcoholic beverages, such as rice wine, soju, sake, mead, kumis, cider, kvass, and African beers (kumi kumi, kwete, banana beer, millet beer, umqombothi etc.). The last two columns represent projections for total consumption (sum of recorded and unrecorded) for the years 2025 and 2030, which are estimated using an ARIMA regression analyses.

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Recorded consumption of pure alcohol (litres) per person 15 years of age and over in the year 2019[6]
CountryRecorded
consumption
Unrecorded
consumption
Beer
(%)
Wine
(%)
Spirits
(%)
Other
(%)
2025
projection
2030
projection
 Estonia11.81.135.316.938.29.711.112.2
 Lithuania11.00.842.57.745.24.611.712.1
 Czech Republic12.90.452.721.825.4<0.113.413.2
 Seychelles13.30.542.020.833.73.512.111.7
 Germany11.10.450.529.919.6<0.112.111.6
 Nigeria2.91.322.10.813.064.14.13.7
 Ireland11.10.345.426.420.67.611.510.8
 Moldova6.34.824.237.635.82.511.312.3
 Latvia12.91.540.112.140.67.213.114.3
 Bulgaria11.40.640.116.341.71.912.012.4
 France11.50.421.156.820.51.611.310.7
 Romania10.76.249.730.619.6<0.116.917.5
 Slovenia10.40.644.244.910.9<0.111.611.1
 Portugal10.20.625.657.713.03.710.610.1
 Luxembourg11.30.235.643.620.10.811.510.9
 Belgium9.20.447.637.012.03.410.29.8
 Russia7.13.341.415.543.1<0.110.49.8
 Austria11.70.452.731.116.2<0.112.211.7
 Poland10.71.454.28.137.7<0.111.812.5
 Gabon6.60.781.37.910.10.77.06.4
 Slovakia10.30.635.922.941.2<0.111.311.2
  Switzerland9.20.433.946.218.61.310.610.0
 Hungary11.00.637.328.734.0<0.110.410.4
 United Kingdom9.80.535.434.623.66.410.810.5
 Andorra11.10.431.745.521.11.711.110.7
 Equatorial Guinea6.20.862.518.018.60.97.37.4
 Belarus10.10.621.39.045.024.711.310.7
 Serbia6.90.843.819.033.83.47.97.3
 Cyprus7.90.630.627.941.6<0.18.08.0
 Uruguay5.20.437.448.214.4<0.15.55.0
 Finland8.30.547.220.316.815.79.18.9
 New Zealand9.10.537.132.317.113.59.99.9
 Australia9.50.438.938.913.68.610.19.9
 Cook Islands12.60.628.815.156.1<0.110.612.5
 Denmark9.20.437.244.917.9<0.19.38.7
 Greece6.60.732.044.022.51.56.96.5
 Laos7.44.249.80.549.7<0.112.213.1
 South Korea7.80.422.32.02.873.08.17.4
 Spain10.70.543.233.521.61.711.011.0
 Eswatini7.11.134.71.02.362.08.17.8
 Saint Lucia10.20.532.711.149.76.610.210.2
 Argentina7.60.442.937.49.19.67.68.0
 Georgia7.66.724.341.833.60.315.015.3
 Namibia5.00.928.441.711.918.05.76.1
 United States8.90.444.918.236.9<0.19.69.8
 Barbados10.00.536.514.047.91.79.510.5
 Uganda6.65.612.90.29.277.712.09.9
 Saint Kitts and Nevis8.80.442.611.543.62.36.56.6
 Tanzania5.15.314.00.37.178.610.410.3
 Chile6.40.448.925.825.3<0.17.57.9
 Grenada8.50.541.45.649.43.68.28.4
 South Africa7.41.456.317.716.19.98.98.9
 Sweden7.12.237.047.214.01.89.39.4
 Iceland7.70.556.227.616.2<0.17.98.4
 Rwanda1.30.547.92.011.338.83.04.0
 Cameroon4.06.158.62.60.238.510.010.1
 Canada8.11.944.325.726.04.09.810.0
 Croatia10.10.747.335.113.44.28.58.1
 Netherlands8.30.548.135.316.6<0.19.28.7
 Ukraine5.53.246.05.547.60.99.08.8
 Botswana7.40.841.04.911.142.98.58.6
 Ivory Coast1.90.956.318.88.616.22.92.8
 Trinidad and Tobago5.70.452.12.044.21.76.36.7
 Thailand6.71.229.52.468.0<0.18.07.7
 Vietnam3.45.992.40.66.80.29.310.7
 Burkina Faso7.22.614.50.93.281.49.910.9
 Dominica6.30.528.74.665.71.15.85.3
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines7.6<0.134.23.759.13.07.18.1
 Malta9.00.542.026.325.75.98.59.8
 North Macedonia4.00.851.525.621.91.04.74.9
 Japan6.40.221.06.115.057.96.66.3
 Montenegro9.80.738.326.332.23.210.410.4
 Panama6.30.479.31.019.30.46.56.8
 Brazil6.31.463.13.832.70.47.612.1
 Congo5.60.890.11.38.40.26.27.9
 Kazakhstan3.90.761.54.334.1<0.14.44.2
 Albania4.40.739.624.534.11.85.15.4
 Burundi3.11.060.20.10.139.54.13.4
 Italy7.60.525.763.710.5<0.18.07.5
 Norway6.00.543.836.616.53.06.86.9
 Mongolia7.20.729.920.449.8<0.17.88.0
 China4.80.928.43.068.5<0.15.05.5
 Paraguay5.30.556.811.430.41.45.65.7
 Antigua and Barbuda11.20.426.332.837.63.38.59.8
 Niue8.50.850.422.227.4<0.19.310.5
 Dominican Republic5.61.356.03.239.71.06.96.5
 São Tomé and Príncipe4.20.817.177.45.4<0.15.25.0
 Belize5.90.564.911.121.52.55.65.9
 Cambodia4.54.090.70.29.1<0.18.711.0
 Philippines5.01.228.50.770.60.26.26.3
 Mexico4.81.285.33.810.50.45.85.8
 Angola5.30.954.57.835.02.85.45.7
 Bosnia and Herzegovina5.30.976.29.211.43.16.36.8
 Guyana5.20.253.10.745.70.55.35.3
 Peru5.71.853.57.938.40.27.37.8
 Kyrgyzstan4.40.510.25.784.1<0.14.54.7
 Cuba4.71.337.84.757.20.36.06.3
 Nauru2.40.522.03.774.3<0.12.92.8
 Colombia4.20.773.81.424.30.44.94.8
 Haiti3.00.417.20.981.70.23.23.1
 Liberia2.80.814.11.683.70.53.53.4
 Cape Verde1.90.956.318.88.616.22.92.8
 India3.01.97.1<0.192.8<0.15.06.7
 Sierra Leone0.2<0.168.06.621.14.30.30.3
 Venezuela2.70.358.50.539.61.42.41.8
 Armenia4.10.920.39.570.00.25.25.7
 Turkmenistan2.9<0.123.140.336.6<0.12.83.1
 Nicaragua3.70.541.00.858.10.14.04.1
 Suriname6.30.453.92.741.02.37.18.2
 Lesotho3.51.054.72.98.933.54.55.3
 Bolivia3.01.174.44.318.62.64.04.3
 Costa Rica3.20.372.34.910.412.43.33.1
 Guinea-Bissau3.30.915.433.615.835.13.94.1
 Myanmar1.90.226.90.972.1<0.12.43.4
 Zambia3.20.637.91.48.552.23.83.8
 Zimbabwe2.80.934.11.912.351.73.94.6
 Bahamas9.50.338.715.342.83.24.44.3
 Ecuador3.00.376.82.719.41.03.33.1
 Sri Lanka2.60.38.50.389.81.42.83.3
 Jamaica3.50.434.68.347.39.73.63.6
 Honduras2.80.457.51.341.10.13.23.4
 North Korea3.40.93.2<0.196.8<0.14.34.5
 Gambia0.90.317.9<0.11.880.30.90.6
 Israel2.60.449.33.045.12.53.03.1
 United Arab Emirates2.10.410.57.081.41.02.32.5
 El Salvador2.90.450.91.947.00.23.43.5
 Malawi1.81.54.20.89.585.53.43.5
 Mauritius7.00.828.63.767.10.57.67.4
 Kenya2.30.632.11.235.131.62.83.2
 Central African Republic1.40.536.61.81.060.62.01.9
 Tajikistan0.9<0.144.01.354.20.50.80.8
 Togo1.00.463.11.120.115.61.41.4
 Benin5.23.217.00.94.078.18.78.5
 Fiji3.00.753.99.137.0<0.13.84.3
 Ethiopia1.81.555.90.19.734.33.75.1
 Ghana1.92.734.52.021.342.24.54.5
 Maldives1.30.422.940.936.00.21.51.4
 Uzbekistan2.6<0.17.83.388.8<0.12.52.8
 DR Congo1.11.048.60.83.647.12.01.4
 Federated States of Micronesia1.60.658.58.533.0<0.12.11.9
 Samoa1.90.782.38.79.1<0.12.42.2
 Guatemala1.6<0.155.13.041.50.41.61.5
 Mozambique1.50.672.110.414.43.22.12.5
 Timor-Leste0.3<0.169.112.817.30.80.20.2
   Nepal0.80.628.30.671.1<0.11.51.6
 Qatar1.00.229.67.862.00.61.11.3
 Singapore1.80.269.015.413.72.01.91.8
 Turkey1.30.656.812.330.8<0.11.71.6
 Bahrain1.50.437.612.148.71.61.61.3
 Madagascar0.70.368.69.521.8<0.11.00.9
 Tunisia2.00.662.126.59.91.52.02.1
 Tuvalu0.90.31.574.324.2<0.11.21.5
 Chad0.53.269.70.80.928.73.54.2
 Lebanon1.20.332.318.148.31.41.51.3
 Tonga0.30.14.360.335.4<0.10.40.5
 Solomon Islands1.20.571.34.524.2<0.11.61.2
 Eritrea0.90.442.0<0.1<0.158.01.21.6
 Guinea0.30.192.23.64.2<0.10.50.6
 Mali3.50.82.70.20.496.74.34.1
 Papua New Guinea1.20.545.84.748.60.91.41.4
 Iran0.10.675.4<0.124.6<0.10.4<0.1
 Vanuatu1.70.620.224.255.50.12.12.6
 Algeria0.6<0.153.532.713.8<0.10.60.8
 Comoros0.2<0.121.739.838.5<0.10.20.4
 Malaysia0.70.273.06.419.01.70.80.8
 Azerbaijan0.91.038.313.047.90.72.53.9
 Indonesia<0.1<0.178.23.217.80.80.10.1
 Oman0.50.434.53.561.70.20.90.9
 Jordan0.3<0.127.61.769.31.40.30.2
 Senegal0.30.166.726.36.30.70.40.4
 Bhutan<0.10.111.12.486.30.10.20.3
 Morocco0.5<0.135.646.118.00.30.60.6
 Djibouti0.30.128.117.453.21.20.30.3
 Niger<0.1<0.141.37.950.60.10.10.1
 Sudan<0.1<0.127.030.937.64.5<0.1<0.1
 Brunei0.70.1100.0<0.1<0.1<0.10.40.4
 Egypt0.1<0.163.67.228.30.90.10.2
 Iraq0.2<0.170.32.326.80.70.20.3
 Kiribati0.40.664.1<0.135.8<0.10.80.7
 Pakistan<0.1<0.17.7<0.168.723.60.10.1
 Syria0.1<0.112.81.386.0<0.10.20.1
 Afghanistan<0.1<0.16.14.489.10.4<0.1<0.1
 Saudi Arabia<0.1<0.1<0.1<0.1
 Yemen<0.1<0.198.0<0.12.0<0.1<0.1<0.1
 Bangladesh<0.1<0.111.12.486.30.1<0.1<0.1
 Kuwait<0.1<0.1<0.1<0.1
 Libya<0.1<0.16.810.532.650.2<0.1<0.1
 Mauritania<0.1<0.1<0.1<0.1
 Somalia<0.1<0.1<0.1<0.1
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