List of countries by alcohol consumption per capita

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

A standard drink is about 17 milliliters of ethanol, putting one liter at about 59 drinks.

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.
 * The second report was released in 2004, published with data from 2003.
 * The third report was published in 2011, with data from 2010.
 * The fourth global report was published in 2014, using data from 2010.
 * The fifth global report was published in 2018, with data from 2016.
 * The sixth global report was published in 2024, with data from 2019.

Worldwide
Percentage of current drinkers among the total population (15+ years)

Countries
Worldwide consumption in 2019 was equal to 5.5 litres of pure alcohol consumed per person aged 15 years or older. 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).

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. 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.