Statizoid

Total alcohol consumption per capita (liters of pure alcohol, projected estimates, 15+ years of age) by country

Total alcohol per capita consumption is defined as the total (sum of recorded and unrecorded alcohol) amount of alcohol consumed per person (15 years of age or older) over a calendar year, in litres of pure alcohol, adjusted for tourist consumption.

Countries reporting
181
Highest
16.8
Romania
Lowest
0.01
Sudan
Median
4.36
Years covered
21
2000–2020
Data points
4,872

What the numbers show

Total alcohol consumption per capita (liters of pure alcohol, projected estimates, 15+ years of age) is currently reported for 181 countries. The highest value is 16.8 in Romania; the lowest is 0.01 in Sudan.

The median across all reporting countries is 4.36, and the mean is 5.13.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 1,680.

Over the past decade 53 countries rose and 126 fell. The largest increase was in Bangladesh (up 2,200.0%), and the largest decrease in Syrian Arab Republic (down 90.7%).

Total alcohol consumption per capita (liters of pure alcohol): full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Romania 16.8 2020 down 4.7% falling
2 Georgia 14.41 2020 down 2.9% rising
3 Latvia 12.87 2020 up 17.1% rising
4 Lithuania 12.1 2020 down 13.9% flat
5 Czechia 11.99 2020 down 10.1% falling
6 Germany 11.84 2020 down 4.6% falling
7 Poland 11.66 2020 up 3.2% rising
8 Belarus 11.63 2020 down 22.4% falling
9 Bulgaria 11.62 2020 up 9.0% rising
10 Austria 11.51 2020 down 5.9% falling
11 Uganda 11.3 2020 down 19.3% falling
12 Burkina Faso 11.27 2020 up 39.0% rising
13 Republic of Moldova 11.08 2020 down 3.1% flat
14 Tanzania, United Republic of 10.95 2020 down 8.1% flat
15 Lao People's Democratic Republic 10.82 2020 up 3.8% rising
15 Luxembourg 10.82 2020 down 10.8% falling
17 Ireland 10.77 2020 down 11.8% falling
18 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 10.73 2020 down 2.0% falling
19 Estonia 10.68 2020 down 24.9% flat
20 Slovakia 10.67 2020 up 1.2% falling
21 Russian Federation 10.53 2020 down 23.5% falling
22 Slovenia 10.41 2020 down 6.6% falling
23 France 10.32 2020 down 15.8% falling
24 Australia 10.29 2020 down 7.3% falling
25 Seychelles 10.19 2020 up 31.1% rising
26 Switzerland 10.07 2020 down 11.0% falling
27 New Zealand 10.02 2020 down 2.5% flat
28 Hungary 9.93 2020 down 8.4% falling
29 United States of America 9.9 2020 up 6.0% rising
30 Canada 9.89 2020 down 3.1% flat
31 Andorra 9.68 2020 down 10.2% falling
32 Cameroon 9.6 2020 down 23.5% falling
33 Sweden 9.57 2020 down 2.2% flat
34 Denmark 9.49 2020 down 8.7% falling
35 Belgium 9.43 2020 down 16.8% falling
36 Saint Lucia 9.28 2020 down 3.3% falling
37 Ukraine 9.24 2020 down 20.8% falling
38 Spain 9.16 2020 down 3.5% falling
39 Finland 9.08 2020 down 15.5% falling
40 Portugal 8.88 2020 down 22.1% falling
41 Benin 8.83 2020 up 33.6% volatile
42 Netherlands 8.71 2020 down 14.6% falling
43 Barbados 8.22 2020 down 0.6% rising
44 Gabon 8.14 2020 down 8.6% falling
45 Argentina 8.05 2020 up 4.7% rising
46 Viet Nam 8.04 2020 up 9.1% rising
47 Thailand 7.99 2020 up 5.5% falling
48 Iceland 7.94 2020 up 6.3% rising
49 Republic of Korea 7.79 2020 down 17.0% falling
50 Brazil 7.7 2020 down 10.8% falling
51 Mongolia 7.68 2020 down 1.0% rising
52 Croatia 7.65 2020 down 19.3% falling
53 Chile 7.56 2020 down 3.0% rising
54 Norway 7.38 2020 down 0.7% flat
55 Grenada 7.33 2020 down 2.9% flat
56 Botswana 7.27 2020 down 2.7% rising
57 South Africa 7.13 2020 down 17.9% falling
58 Malta 7.11 2020 up 2.9% rising
59 Italy 6.97 2020 down 3.5% falling
60 Mauritius 6.86 2020 down 10.6% falling
61 Eswatini 6.79 2020 down 5.0% falling
62 Cambodia 6.67 2020 up 41.6% rising
63 Antigua and Barbuda 6.66 2020 up 16.0% rising
64 Equatorial Guinea 6.56 2020 down 28.4% falling
65 Dominican Republic 6.5 2020 down 5.0% falling
66 Peru 6.45 2020 down 14.5% rising
67 Japan 6.38 2020 down 5.8% falling
68 Cyprus 6.36 2020 down 30.3% falling
69 Congo 6.05 2020 up 30.1% rising
70 Trinidad and Tobago 6.03 2020 down 2.0% rising
71 Cape Verde 6.01 2020 up 6.7% rising
72 Suriname 5.93 2020 up 4.0% rising
73 Bosnia and Herzegovina 5.87 2020 up 2.3% rising
74 Greece 5.81 2020 down 33.4% falling
75 Philippines 5.66 2020 down 7.5% rising
76 Paraguay 5.62 2020 down 11.8% flat
76 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 5.62 2020 down 15.6% rising
78 Uruguay 5.61 2020 down 11.1% falling
79 Cuba 5.38 2020 down 2.2% rising
80 Mali 5.32 2020 up 56.5% volatile
81 Namibia 5.05 2020 up 1.8% rising
82 Guyana 5.04 2020 down 12.7% falling
83 Dominica 5.02 2020 down 23.4% falling
84 Mexico 4.79 2020 down 8.4% falling
84 Sao Tome and Principe 4.79 2020 down 19.1% falling
86 Saint Kitts and Nevis 4.69 2020 down 27.5% falling
87 Panama 4.66 2020 down 28.4% rising
88 China 4.58 2020 down 22.4% rising
89 Kazakhstan 4.52 2020 up 7.6% falling
90 Albania 4.47 2020 down 24.2% flat
91 North Macedonia 4.36 2020 up 0.9% falling
92 Lesotho 4.3 2020 up 26.8% rising
93 Armenia 4.28 2020 down 15.4% rising
94 Ghana 4.26 2020 down 21.8% falling
95 Colombia 4.24 2020 down 16.4% falling
96 Burundi 4.16 2020 down 32.6% falling
97 Angola 4.13 2020 down 50.4% rising
98 India 4.1 2020 down 11.3% rising
99 Korea, Democratic People's Republic of 3.87 2020 down 12.6% rising
100 Nigeria 3.78 2020 down 25.3% falling
101 Guinea-Bissau 3.73 2020 down 3.9% flat
102 Belize 3.67 2020 down 40.1% flat
102 Nicaragua 3.67 2020 down 2.1% flat
104 Bahamas 3.65 2020 down 15.7% falling
105 Kyrgyzstan 3.63 2020 down 43.2% falling
106 Zambia 3.62 2020 up 9.4% rising
107 Malawi 3.61 2020 up 1.1% rising
108 Bolivia, Plurinational State of 3.59 2020 down 23.0% rising
109 Fiji 3.58 2020 up 25.6% rising
110 Costa Rica 3.4 2020 down 15.0% falling
111 El Salvador 3.15 2020 up 16.2% flat
112 Haiti 3.11 2020 down 1.0% falling
113 Jamaica 3.1 2020 up 2.0% rising
114 Honduras 3.08 2020 down 1.6% falling
115 Ethiopia 3.06 2020 up 83.2% rising
116 Sri Lanka 2.91 2020 up 11.9% rising
116 Chad 2.91 2020 down 24.6% rising
118 Rwanda 2.87 2020 up 129.6% rising
119 Liberia 2.86 2020 down 26.7% falling
120 Côte d'Ivoire 2.85 2020 up 1.1% falling
121 Israel 2.84 2020 down 10.1% flat
122 Naoero 2.79 2020 down 32.9% falling
123 Zimbabwe 2.67 2020 down 19.3% rising
124 Turkmenistan 2.62 2020 down 1.5% rising
125 Ecuador 2.54 2020 down 38.3% falling
126 Azerbaijan 2.49 2020 up 37.6% rising
127 Kenya 2.47 2020 down 1.6% rising
128 Samoa 2.35 2020 down 9.3% falling
129 Uzbekistan 2.1 2020 up 17.3% falling
130 United Arab Emirates 2.08 2020 up 6.1% rising
131 Vanuatu 2.04 2020 up 22.2% rising
132 Micronesia, Federated States of 2.02 2020 down 19.2% falling
133 Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of 1.99 2020 down 74.3% falling
134 Myanmar 1.93 2020 up 75.5% rising
135 Congo, Democratic Republic of the 1.92 2020 down 37.3% volatile
136 Mozambique 1.89 2020 up 53.7% rising
137 Singapore 1.81 2020 down 5.7% falling
138 Central African Republic 1.75 2020 down 28.6% falling
139 Tunisia 1.71 2020 up 3.0% rising
140 Türkiye 1.69 2020 down 20.3% falling
141 Guatemala 1.54 2020 down 24.5% falling
142 Maldives 1.49 2020 down 4.5% falling
143 Solomon Islands 1.45 2020 up 29.5% rising
144 Togo 1.44 2020 down 19.6% flat
145 Lebanon 1.26 2020 down 30.8% falling
145 Tuvalu 1.26 2020 down 20.8% falling
147 Bahrain 1.25 2020 down 46.8% falling
148 Papua New Guinea 1.13 2020 down 19.3% falling
149 Eritrea 1.07 2020 down 26.2% rising
150 Nepal 1.06 2020 up 11.6% volatile
151 Qatar 1.05 2020 down 10.3% flat
152 Madagascar 0.99 2020 down 6.6% falling
153 Malaysia 0.74 2020 up 23.3% rising
153 Tajikistan 0.74 2020 up 7.2% flat
155 Kiribati 0.72 2020 up 10.8% falling
156 Gambia 0.61 2020 down 80.8% falling
157 Algeria 0.54 2020 up 22.7% rising
158 Guinea 0.52 2020 up 67.7% rising
159 Brunei Darussalam 0.51 2020 up 82.1% rising
159 Iran, Islamic Republic of 0.51 2020 down 54.5% volatile
159 Oman 0.51 2020 down 42.0% falling
162 Morocco 0.5 2020 unchanged flat
163 Djibouti 0.38 2020 down 44.9% falling
163 Senegal 0.38 2020 down 7.3% falling
165 Tonga 0.36 2020 down 69.5% volatile
166 Sierra Leone 0.29 2020 down 6.5% rising
167 Iraq 0.24 2020 unchanged rising
168 Comoros 0.23 2020 up 15.0% falling
168 Jordan 0.23 2020 down 52.1% falling
170 Bhutan 0.18 2020 down 73.5% volatile
171 Timor-Leste 0.17 2020 down 43.3% falling
172 Egypt 0.13 2020 down 35.0% flat
172 Niger 0.13 2020 down 23.5% rising
174 Bangladesh 0.092 2020 up 2,200.0% volatile
174 Syrian Arab Republic 0.092 2020 down 90.7% volatile
176 Pakistan 0.084 2020 up 6.3% rising
177 Indonesia 0.074 2020 down 26.0% rising
178 Yemen 0.044 2020 down 24.1% falling
179 Libya 0.012 2020 up 71.4% volatile
180 Afghanistan 0.011 2020 down 8.3% volatile
181 Sudan 0.01 2020 down 77.8% volatile

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Total alcohol consumption per capita (liters of pure alcohol) by country. Statizoid, drawing on Global Health Observatory Data Repository, World Health Organization (WHO). Retrieved 06 September 2026, from https://health.statizoid.com/stat/total-alcohol-consumption-per-capita-liters-of-pure-alcohol-projected-estimates-15-years/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://health.statizoid.com/stat/total-alcohol-consumption-per-capita-liters-of-pure-alcohol-projected-estimates-15-years/">Total alcohol consumption per capita (liters of pure alcohol) by country</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Total alcohol consumption per capita (liters of pure alcohol, projected estimates, 15+ years of age)
Source
Global Health Observatory Data Repository, World Health Organization (WHO)
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
232 places, 4,872 data points, 2000–2020
Last refreshed

Total alcohol per capita consumption is defined as the total (sum of recorded and unrecorded alcohol) amount of alcohol consumed per person (15 years of age or older) over a calendar year, in litres of pure alcohol, adjusted for tourist consumption.