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 statistics

The table below 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, 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 adults (age 15+) in liters per capita per year, 2010^[1]

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

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 [2]	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
6	Luxembourg	11.4		2011
8	Germany	11.2		2011
9	Slovenia	10.6		2011
10	Denmark	10.5		2011
11	Poland	10.3		2011
11	Portugal	10.3		2011
11	United Kingdom	10.3		2011
14	Slovakia	10.2		2011
15	Australia	10		2011
15	Switzerland	10		2011
17	Belgium	9.8		2011
17	Finland	9.8		2011
17	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
27	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. WHO Global status report on alcohol and health 2014
2. http://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?DataSetCode=HEALTH_STAT#