List of countries by alcohol consumption per capita

This is a list of countries by alcohol consumption measured in equivalent litres of pure ethanol consumed per capita per year.

WHO Data

The WHO publish periodically The Global Status Report on Alcohol:

• 1999 was first published by WHO in 1999.^[1]
• 2004 is the second global status report on alcohol published by WHO
• 2011 thrid global report on alcohol published by WHO
• 2014 fourth global report on alcohol published by WHO with data from 2010

2010 WHO data

The table below for about 190 countries uses 2010 data from the WHO report published in 2014. The methodology used by the WHO calculated use by persons 15 years of age or older. All data in columns refer to year 2010. The column "recorded" refers to the average recorded consumption for the period 2010. Unrecorded consumption was calculated using empirical investigations and expert judgments. Total is the sum of the recorded and unrecorded consumption. The next four columns are a breakdown of the recorded alcohol consumption by type. 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, sake, kumi kumi, kwete, mead and cider.

Pure alcohol consumption among persons (age 15+) in liters per capita per year, 2010^[2]

Rank	Country	Total	Recorded consumption	Unrecorded consumption	Beer (%)	Wine (%)	Spirits (%)	Other (%)	2015 projection
1	Belarus	17.5	14.4	3.2	17.3	5.2	46.6	30.9	17.1
2	Moldova	16.8	6.3	10.5	30.4	5.1	64.5	0	17.4
3	Lithuania	15.4	12.9	2.5	46.5	7.8	34.1	11.6	16.2
4	Russia	15.1	11.5	3.6	37.6	11.4	51	0	14.5
5	Romania	14.4	10.4	4	50	28.9	21.1	0	12.9
6	Ukraine	13.9	8.9	5	40.5	9	48	2.6	11.8
7	Andorra	13.8	12.4	1.4	34.6	45.3	20.1	0	9.1
8	Hungary	13.3	11.3	2	36.3	29.4	34.3	0	12.4
9	Czech Republic	13	11.8	1.2	53.5	20.5	26	0	14.1
10	Slovakia	13	11.4	1.7	30.1	18.3	46.2	5.5	12.5
11	Portugal	12.9	11	1.9	30.8	55.5	10.9	2.8	12.5
12	Serbia	12.6	9.6	2.9	51.5	23.9	24.6	0	12.9
13	Grenada	12.5	11.9	0.7	29.3	4.3	66.2	0.2	10.4
14	Poland	12.5	10.9	1.6	55.1	9.3	35.5	0	11.5
15	Latvia	12.3	10.5	1.8	46.9	10.7	37	5.4	10.6
16	Finland	12.3	10	2.3	46	17.5	24	12.6	11.9
17	South Korea	12.3	9.8	2.5	25	1.6	2.9	70.5	10.9
18	France	12.2	11.8	0.4	18.8	56.4	23.1	1.7	11.6
19	Australia	12.2	10.4	1.8	44	36.7	12.5	6.8	12.6
20	Croatia	12.2	10.2	2	39.5	44.8	15.4	0.2	11.7
21	Ireland	11.9	11.4	0.5	48.1	26.1	18.7	7.7	10.9
22	Luxembourg	11.9	11.4	0.5	36.2	42.8	21	0	11.2
23	Germany	11.8	11.3	0.5	53.6	27.8	18.6	0	10.6
24	Slovenia	11.6	10.6	1	44.5	46.9	8.6	0	10.9
25	United Kingdom	11.6	10.4	1.2	36.9	33.8	21.8	7.5	12
26	Denmark	11.4	10.4	1	37.7	48.2	14.1	0	10.2
27	Bulgaria	11.4	10.3	1.1	39.3	16.5	44.1	0.1	11.3
28	Spain	11.2	10	1.2	49.7	20.1	28.2	1.8	10.6
29	Belgium	11	10.5	0.5	49.2	36.3	14.4	0.1	10.8
30	South Africa	11	8.2	2.9	48.1	17.8	16.7	17.4	11.5
31	New Zealand	10.9	9.3	1.6	38.2	33.9	15.2	12.5	11.2
32	Gabon	10.9	8.9	2	68.3	11.9	19.8	0.1	11.8
33	Namibia	10.8	6.8	4	96.7	0.3	0.9	2.1	11.8
34	Switzerland	10.7	10.2	0.5	31.8	49.4	17.6	1.2	10.4
35	Saint Lucia	10.4	10.1	0.2	29.7	12.6	56.1	1.5	10.4
36	Austria	10.3	9.7	0.6	50.4	35.5	14	0	8.5
37	Estonia	10.3	9.5	0.8	41.2	11.1	36.8	10.9	9.4
38	Greece	10.3	8.3	2	28.1	47.3	24.2	0.4	9.3
39	Kazakhstan	10.3	6.8	3.5	31.8	3.1	65.1	0	8.2
40	Canada	10.2	8.2	2	51.2	22	26.8	0	10.3
41	Nigeria	10.1	9.1	1	8	0.4	0.9	90.7	11.3
42	Netherlands	9.9	9.4	0.5	46.8	36.4	16.9	0	9.6
43	Uganda	9.8	8.3	1.5	9.4	0.1	1.9	88.6	10.5
44	Rwanda	9.8	6.8	3	11.1	0	0.4	88.4	10
45	Chile	9.6	7.6	2	29.9	40.7	29.4	0	9.3
46	Argentina	9.3	8.3	1	40.7	48	5.5	5.8	7.6
47	Burundi	9.3	6.3	3	24.5	0	0.1	75.4	9.8
48	United States	9.2	8.7	0.5	50	17.3	32.7	0	9
49	Cyprus	9.2	8.2	1	40.9	24.7	33.7	0.7	9.1
50	Sweden	9.2	7.2	2	37	46.6	15.1	1.4	8.7
51	Venezuela	8.9	7.7	1.3	75.6	0.8	23.4	0.2	8.3
52	Paraguay	8.8	7.3	1.5	51.1	18.2	28.8	2	9.6
53	Brazil	8.7	7.2	1.5	59.6	4	36.3	0.1	9.1
54	Sierra Leone	8.7	6.7	2	6.4	0.5	0.7	92.3	8.2
55	Montenegro	8.7	4.9	3.9	10.9	47	41.7	0.4	13.3
56	Belize	8.5	6.8	1.7	67.6	2	30.3	0.1	8.3
57	Cameroon	8.4	5.8	2.6	63.9	22.1	13.8	0.2	7.7
58	Botswana	8.4	5.4	3	56	11.8	11.5	20.7	7.7
59	Saint Kitts and Nevis	8.2	7.7	0.5	44	7.4	48	0.6	7
60	Guyana	8.1	7.1	1	23	0.3	76.6	0.1	8.6
61	Peru	8.1	6.1	2	46.8	6.1	47.1	0	5.2
62	Panama	8	7.2	0.8	69.2	4.6	26	0.2	7.7
63	Niue	8	7	1	47	1.7	51.3	0	7.7
64	Palau	7.9	6.9	1	77.7	5.9	16.4	0
65	Norway	7.7	6.7	1	44.2	34.7	19	2.1	7
66	Tanzania	7.7	5.7	2	11	0.2	1.8	87	8.1
67	Georgia	7.7	5.4	2.3	17	49.8	33.2	0.1	6.7
68	Uruguay	7.6	6.6	1	30.6	59.9	9.5	0	7
69	Angola	7.5	5.9	1.6	64.3	13.7	17.4	4.7	7.6
70	Laos	7.3	6.2	1.1	35.6	0	64.4	0	7.5
71	Japan	7.2	7	0.2	19.2	4.1	52	24.7	7.5
72	Mexico	7.2	5.5	1.8	75.7	1.5	22.2	0.5	6.8
73	Ecuador	7.2	4.2	3	67.3	1.2	31.5	0	6.1
74	Dominica	7.1	6.6	0.5	13.7	7.1	77.9	1.2	6.6
75	Iceland	7.1	6.6	0.5	61.8	21.2	16.5	0.5	6.9
76	Thailand	7.1	6.4	0.7	27	0.4	72.6	0	8.3
77	Bosnia and Herzegovina	7.1	4.6	2.5	73.3	9.7	17	0	7.5
78	São Tomé and Príncipe	7.1	4.2	2.9	23.5	60.2	16.3	0	6.8
79	Malta	7	6.6	0.4	39.4	32.7	27.2	0.7	7.2
80	Albania	7	4.9	2.1	31.8	19.8	48.4	0	6.6
81	Bahamas	6.9	6.3	0.5	34	14.6	50.4	1	4.2
82	Dominican Republic	6.9	6.2	0.7	54.5	2.7	42.7	0.1	7.6
83	Mongolia	6.9	4.9	2	27.6	2.8	69.6	0	7.8
84	Cape Verde	6.9	4	2.9	44.4	1.2	0.2	54.2	7.2
85	Barbados	6.8	6.3	0.5	39.7	10.2	49.3	0.8	6.5
86	Burkina Faso	6.8	4.3	2.5	10	3	3.1	83.8	7.4
87	Italy	6.7	6.5	0.2	23	65.6	11.5	0	6.1
88	Trinidad and Tobago	6.7	6.4	0.3	54	2	43.8	0.3	6.6
89	China	6.7	5	1.7	27.8	3	69.2	0	7.6
90	Macedonia	6.7	3.9	2.8	47.4	39.9	12.6	0	5.7
91	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	6.6	6.3	0.3	33.4	3	63.1	0.5	7.2
92	Equatorial Guinea	6.6	5.8	0.8	27.8	72.2	0	0	8.1
93	Suriname	6.6	5.6	1	40	2.3	57.2	0.5	6.5
94	Vietnam	6.6	2	4.6	97.3	0.6	2.1	0	8.7
95	Lesotho	6.5	2.8	3.7	51.3	0.2	18.9	29.6	6.4
96	Haiti	6.4	5.9	0.6	0.2	0.2	99.6	0	5.9
97	Cook Islands	6.4	5.9	0.5	0	22.6	77.4	0	4.8
98	Colombia	6.2	4.2	2	66.1	1.1	32.5	0.3	6.6
99	Ivory Coast	6	4	2	16.1	3	0.4	80.5	6.5
100	Bolivia	5.9	3.8	2.1	76.8	3.8	19.3	0.1	5.8
101	Swaziland	5.7	4.7	1	33.6	0.8	0.7	65	6.4
102	Zimbabwe	5.7	4.7	1	23.7	1.7	6.8	67.7	4.8
103	Seychelles	5.6	4.1	1.5	67	22.2	10.8	0	6.7
104	Cambodia	5.5	2.2	3.3	45.7	0.8	53.5	0	6.1
105	Puerto Rico	5.4	4.9	0.5	66.6	6.7	26.4	0.3	-
106	Netherlands Antilles	5.4	4.9	0.4	36.4	16.4	47	0.3	3.2
107	Philippines	5.4	4.6	0.9	26.9	0.3	72.7	0	5.6
108	Costa Rica	5.4	4.4	1	59.3	4.7	35.5	0.5	5.1
109	Armenia	5.3	3.8	1.5	9.7	5.3	84.9	0	5.5
110	Cuba	5.2	4.2	1	38.8	2.2	58.9	0	5.5
111	Nicaragua	5	3.5	1.5	38.8	0.5	60.6	0	4.6
112	Jamaica	4.9	3.4	1.5	42	4.9	51.4	1.6	5.1
113	Ghana	4.8	1.8	3	30	9.7	2.9	57.3	5.4
114	Liberia	4.7	3.1	1.6	10.8	1	88.1	0	5.2
115	Uzbekistan	4.6	2.4	2.1	18.3	6.3	75.4	0	4.8
116	Chad	4.4	0.4	4	66.3	3.4	3.8	26.5	4.4
117	United Arab Emirates	4.3	2.8	1.5	10.3	2.9	86.7	0	4.3
118	Kyrgyzstan	4.3	2.4	1.9	22.6	4.2	72.9	0.3	3.9
119	India	4.3	2.2	2.2	6.8	0.1	93.1	0	4.6
120	Turkmenistan	4.3	2.2	2.2	15.4	26.1	58.4	0	5
121	Kenya	4.3	1.8	2.5	56.1	1.8	21.6	20.4	4
122	Ethiopia	4.2	0.7	3.5	49.7	0.6	8.2	41.4	4.3
123	Honduras	4	3	1	40.1	1.1	58.7	0	4
124	Guinea-Bissau	4	2.5	1.5	19.6	14.9	22.4	43	4.3
125	Zambia	4	2.5	1.5	22.7	2.9	13.6	60.7	4
126	Republic of the Congo	3.9	1.7	2.2	78.4	9.8	10.9	0.8	3.9
127	Guatemala	3.8	2.2	1.6	41.9	1.6	56.3	0.2	3.9
128	Central African Republic	3.8	1.8	2	16.2	0.6	2.1	81.1	3.8
129	North Korea	3.7	3.2	0.5	5.1	0	94.9	0	4.4
130	Sri Lanka	3.7	2.2	1.5	13	0.1	85.2	1.7	4.5
131	Mauritius	3.6	2.6	1	66.2	12.3	21.3	0.2	4
132	Samoa	3.6	2.6	1	70.9	16.6	12.5	0
133	Democratic Republic of the Congo	3.6	2.3	1.3	24	0.7	2	73.3	3.4
134	Nauru	3.5	1	2.5	85.4	14.6	0	0	3
135	Gambia	3.4	2.4	1	5.6	0.7	0.3	93.5	3.2
136	Federated States of Micronesia	3.3	2.3	1	47	14.1	38.9	0	3.5
137	El Salvador	3.2	2.2	1	41.7	1.7	56.6	0	3.5
138	Fiji	3	2	1	67.7	0.9	31.1	0.2	3.2
139	Papua New Guinea	3	1.5	1.5	51.3	0.9	47.7	0	3.1
140	Kiribati	3	1	2	36.9	2.2	60.9	0	2.9
141	Tajikistan	2.8	0.3	2.5	10.2	1.1	88.7	0	2.4
142	Israel	2.8	0.3	2.5	44	6.2	49.5	0.3	3.1
143	Sudan	2.7	1.7	1	8	0	13.5	78.5	2.7
144	Malawi	2.5	1.5	1	9.1	1.2	13.4	76.2	2.5
145	Lebanon	2.4	1.9	0.5	18.2	29.1	52.4	0.3	2.2
146	Azerbaijan	2.3	1.3	1	28.7	7.6	63.3	0	2.1
147	Mozambique	2.3	1.3	1	63	7.3	25.4	4.3	2
148	Togo	2.3	1.3	1	48.9	26.9	2.4	21.8	1.9
149	Nepal	2.2	0.2	2	47.7	0.9	51.4	0	2.1
150	Bahrain	2.1	2	0.1	36.6	6.3	57	0.1	2.4
151	Benin	2.1	1.1	1	54.6	21.7	7.2	16.5	2.2
152	Singapore	2	1.5	0.5	70.1	13.5	14.7	1.7	2.9
153	Turkey	2	1.4	0.6	63.6	8.6	27.9	0	2.4
154	Madagascar	1.8	0.8	1	56	9.5	34.5	0	1.9
155	Solomon Islands	1.7	1.2	0.5	81.1	2.1	16.7	0	1.6
156	Tonga	1.6	1.1	0.5	57.9	7.6	34.3	0.1	2.1
157	Tunisia	1.5	1.3	0.2	68.6	27.7	3.7	0	1.2
158	Tuvalu	1.5	1	0.5	10	15.5	74.5	0	1.3
159	Qatar	1.5	0.9	0.6	1.2	13.9	84.6	0.3	1.3
160	Vanuatu	1.4	0.9	0.5	40.5	22.8	36.7	0	1.2
161	Djibouti	1.3	1.1	0.2	23.2	5.3	71.5	0	0.9
162	Malaysia	1.3	0.3	1	76.2	2	21.8	0.1	1.7
163	Syria	1.2	1	0.3	8.5	27.9	63.5	0	1.4
164	Maldives	1.2	0.7	0.5	29.1	29.4	41.2	0	1
165	Mali	1.1	0.6	0.5	13.3	1.5	2.1	83.1	1
166	Eritrea	1.1	0.5	0.6	63.6	0	0.1	36.3	1.4
167	Algeria	1	0.7	0.3	62.6	35.5	0	2	0.6
168	Iran	1	0	1	24.8	52.1	1	1
169	Oman	0.9	0.7	0.2	54.6	3.3	42.2	0	0.9
170	Brunei	0.9	0.6	0.3	89.8	2.3	7.2	0.7	0.8
171	Morocco	0.9	0.5	0.5	43.5	36.5	19.9	0	0.7
172	Jordan	0.7	0.5	0.2	22.4	2.1	75.4	0.1	0.7
173	Bhutan	0.7	0.4	0.3	100	0	0	0	1.1
174	Guinea	0.7	0.2	0.5	78.9	16.3	3.7	1.1	0.7
175	Myanmar	0.7	0.1	0.6	82.6	5.7	11.8	0	0.7
176	Afghanistan	0.7	0	0.7	18.9	38.3	1	1.2
177	Senegal	0.6	0.3	0.3	55.1	41.3	3.6	0	0.5
178	Indonesia	0.6	0.1	0.5	84.5	0.1	15.3	0	0.6
179	Timor-Leste	0.6	0.1	0.5	9.3	75.9	14.8	0	1.2
180	Iraq	0.5	0.2	0.3	76.1	1	22.9	0	0.5
181	Somalia	0.5	0	0.5	9.2	19.2	0.5	0.5
182	Egypt	0.4	0.2	0.2	53.8	5.4	40.3	0.5	0.3
183	Niger	0.3	0.1	0.2	46	13.2	40.7	0	0.3
184	Yemen	0.3	0.1	0.2	100	0	0	0	0.2
185	Comoros	0.2	0.1	0.1	23.3	22.2	54.6	0	0.2
186	Saudi Arabia	0.2	0.1	0.1	0	1.9	97.9	0.2	0.2
187	Bangladesh	0.2	0	0.2	9	17.6	0.2	0.2
188	Kuwait	0.1	0	0.1	58.1	10.8	30.7	0.4	0.1
189	Libya	0.1	0	0.1	2.5	5	0	0
190	Mauritania	0.1	0	0.1					0.1
191	Pakistan	0.1	0	0	1.2	3	0.1	0.1

2015 WHO data for OECD countries

The following is a list of OECD countries by the total alcohol consumption per capita in litres of pure alcohol as published by the World Health Organization in 2015.^[3]

Rank	Country	Alcohol consumption in litres	Relative alcohol consumption
1	Czech Republic	14.1
2	Australia	12.6
3	Portugal	12.5
4	Slovakia	12.5
5	Hungary	12.4
6	United Kingdom	12.0
7	Finland	11.9
8	France	11.6
9	Poland	11.5
10	Luxembourg	11.2
11	New Zealand	11.2
12	Ireland	10.9
13	Slovenia	10.9
14	South Korea	10.9
15	Belgium	10.8
16	Germany	10.6
17	Spain	10.6
18	Switzerland	10.4
19	Canada	10.3
20	Denmark	10.2
21	Netherlands	9.6
22	Chile	9.3
23	Greece	9.3
24	United States	9.0
25	Sweden	8.7
26	Austria	8.5
27	Japan	7.5
28	Norway	7.0
29	Iceland	6.9
30	Mexico	6.8
31	Italy	6.1
32	Israel	3.1
33	Turkey	2.4

OECD Data

2013 OECD statistics

The table below lists OECD countries by the annual consumption of pure alcohol in liters, per person, aged 15 years old and over, as published in the 2013 OECD Health Data. Note that the methodology to convert alcoholic drinks to pure alcohol may differ across countries. Typically beer is weighted as 4–5%, wine as 11–16% and spirits as 40% of pure alcohol equivalent.

This table is an accurate reflection of the annual consumption of pure alcohol in litres by OECD countries.

Rank	Country	Liters per capita [4]	Relative size	Year
1	Austria	12.2		2011
2	Estonia	12		2011
3	France	11.8		2011
4	Ireland	11.7		2011
5	Czech Republic	11.5		2011
6	Hungary	11.4		2011
7	Luxembourg	11.4		2011
8	Germany	11.2		2011
9	Slovenia	10.6		2011
10	Denmark	10.5		2011
11	Poland	10.3		2011
12	Portugal	10.3		2011
13	United Kingdom	10.3		2011
14	Slovakia	10.2		2011
15	Australia	10		2011
16	Switzerland	10		2011
17	Belgium	9.8		2011
18	Finland	9.8		2011
19	Spain	9.8		2010
20	New Zealand	9.5		2011
21	Netherlands	9.2		2011
22	South Korea	8.9		2011
23	United States	8.6		2011
24	Canada	8		2011
25	Chile	7.9		2010
26	Greece	7.4		2011
27	Japan	7.3		2011
28	Sweden	7.3		2011
29	Norway	6.4		2011
30	Iceland	6.3		2010
31	Italy	6.1		2010
32	Mexico	5.1		2011
33	Israel	2.6		2011
34	Turkey	1.5		2011

See also

• Alcoholic beverage
• Alcoholism
• List of countries by beer consumption per capita
• List of countries with alcohol prohibition

References

1. http://www.who.int/substance_abuse/publications/alcohol/en/
2. WHO Global status report on alcohol and health 2014
3. World Health Statistics 2016 data visualizations dashboard: Harmful use of alcohol.
4. OECD.Stat: Health Status