Countries by alcohol consumption per adult

U.S. Virgin Islands had the highest alcohol consumption per adult of 207 countries in 2013, at 20.4 litres of pure alcohol. Yemen had the lowest, at 0 litres of pure alcohol. The median was 5.02 litres of pure alcohol. Source: World Health Organization.

Highest20.4U.S. Virgin Islands

Lowest0Yemen

Median5.02207 countries

Top 40 countries, 2013

litres of pure alcohol. Source: World Health Organization, Total alcohol per capita (>= 15 years of age) consumption (litres of pure alcohol) (SA_0000001688). Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2013 litres of pure alcohol	Change on 2012
1	U.S. Virgin Islands	20.4	-0.6%
2	Mongolia	17.44	+18.1%
3	Romania	17.12	-0.3%
4	British Virgin Islands	15.97	-2.7%
5	Georgia	15.34	-0.4%
6	Czechia	13.79	+0.4%
7	Lithuania	13.52	-11.9%
8	Russia	13.5	-3.6%
9	Curaçao	13.12	+0.3%
10	Belarus	13	-7.6%
11	Cameroon	12.89	+1.8%
12	France	12.83	-1%
13	Cayman Islands	12.68	-1%
14	Latvia	12.6	+0.1%
15	Austria	12.51	+0.4%
16	Belgium	12.37	+6.4%
17	Finland	12.32	-2%
18	Germany	12.16	-0.6%
19	Hungary	12.15	-1.2%
20	Moldova	11.99	-0.2%
21	Bermuda	11.96	-0.5%
22	Bulgaria	11.95	-0.9%
23	Andorra	11.95	-0.7%
24	Poland	11.91	+0.4%
25	Aruba	11.79	+0.4%
26	Ireland	11.62	-2.4%
27	Slovenia	11.59	+0.7%
28	Estonia	11.51	+1.7%
29	Slovakia	11.49	-0.1%
30	Portugal	11.12	-1.8%
31	Spain	11.09	-0.4%
32	Saint Lucia	10.9	-2.4%
33	Réunion	10.88	-0.1%
34	Montenegro	10.7	0%
35	United Kingdom	10.69	-1.1%
36	Serbia	10.54	-0.9%
37	Australia	10.45	-1.4%
38	Guadeloupe	10.3	-0.4%
39	Denmark	10.28	-2.8%
40	Vietnam	10.08	+1.8%
41	Switzerland	10.08	-1.7%
42	Canada	9.95	-0.9%
43	Cook Islands	9.9	+26.8%
44	New Caledonia	9.83	-1.6%
45	New Zealand	9.81	-1.7%
46	Brazil	9.79	-5.5%
47	Netherlands	9.69	-2.2%
48	Martinique	9.68	-0.8%
49	Malta	9.63	+3%
50	South Korea	9.4	+0.3%
51	United States	9.32	+0.2%
52	Sweden	9.32	+0.2%
53	Seychelles	9.29	+1.6%
54	Croatia	9.29	-1.5%
55	Barbados	9.14	+1.9%
56	Burkina Faso	9.11	-2.9%
57	Saint Kitts and Nevis	9.07	+0.5%
58	Angola	8.71	-0.1%
59	Namibia	8.63	+2.8%
60	Gabon	8.61	+0.5%
61	Greece	8.52	+0.2%
62	Ukraine	8.48	-2.7%
63	South Africa	8.42	+0.2%
64	Mauritius	8.41	-0.7%
65	Equatorial Guinea	8.3	-1.7%
66	French Guiana	8.18	-3.7%
67	French Polynesia	8.15	-2.1%
68	Thailand	8.12	+1%
69	Bahamas	8.1	+3.2%
70	Grenada	8.08	+0.4%
71	Italy	8.06	+1.5%
72	Dominica	8.01	-0.8%
73	Iceland	7.69	-0.4%
74	Luxembourg	7.61	+4.7%
75	Venezuela	7.37	-1.1%
76	Antigua and Barbuda	7.26	+1%
77	China	7.24	+3.6%
78	Argentina	7.23	+0.7%
79	Chile	7.14	-0.9%
80	Armenia	7.12	+4.1%
81	Norway	7.05	-2%
82	Panama	6.97	+1%
83	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	6.86	+1.2%
84	Uruguay	6.86	+0.4%
85	Paraguay	6.78	-2.8%
86	Belize	6.77	-0.2%
87	Japan	6.71	-0.6%
88	Kyrgyzstan	6.48	+1.3%
89	Guyana	6.37	+1.9%
90	São Tomé and Príncipe	6.35	-1.4%
91	Philippines	6.08	-1.9%
92	Suriname	6.01	-1.3%
93	Puerto Rico	6.01	+3.1%
94	Bosnia and Herzegovina	5.84	-0.8%
95	Cuba	5.75	+1.6%
96	Zimbabwe	5.72	+3%
97	Benin	5.54	-2.3%
98	Trinidad and Tobago	5.43	+0.4%
99	Cyprus	5.4	-3.1%
100	Mexico	5.14	-1%
101	India	5.12	+0.3%
102	North Macedonia	5.1	+0.3%
103	Peru	5.06	+1.1%
104	Dominican Republic	5.02	-3.7%
105	Eswatini	4.96	+7%
106	Uganda	4.75	-9.8%
107	Republic of the Congo	4.67	+1.3%
108	Albania	4.65	-6.2%
109	Kazakhstan	4.59	+1%
110	Laos	4.58	+1.7%
111	Colombia	4.43	-2.3%
112	Ecuador	4.35	-1.7%
113	Nicaragua	4.26	+1.6%
114	Macao	4.24	-6.6%
115	Chad	4.22	+4.6%
116	Bolivia	4.18	-0.4%
117	Israel	4.17	-1.4%
118	Saint Helena	4.15	-17.3%
119	Jamaica	3.97	+0.8%
120	Costa Rica	3.56	-1.1%
121	Botswana	3.41	+8%
122	Haiti	3.35	+3.8%
123	Ghana	3.35	+0.4%
124	Burundi	3.35	-9.1%
125	Cape Verde	3.34	-5.3%
126	Samoa	3.21	-3.7%
127	Honduras	3.15	-3.3%
128	Côte d’Ivoire	2.98	+5%
129	El Salvador	2.93	+1.9%
130	Niue	2.91	+1.8%
131	Hong Kong	2.91	-2.3%
132	Guinea-Bissau	2.77	-1%
133	North Korea	2.77	+0.2%
134	Lesotho	2.76	-1.6%
135	Sri Lanka	2.66	-4.6%
136	Bahrain	2.33	-2.4%
137	Tuvalu	2.31	+49.6%
138	Uzbekistan	2.21	+13.7%
139	Turkmenistan	2.16	+3.6%
140	Türkiye	2.13	-2.6%
141	Turks and Caicos Islands	2.1	-2.7%
142	Cambodia	2.1	+10.7%
143	Rwanda	2.07	+54.4%
144	Democratic Republic of the Congo	1.98	+4.7%
145	Lebanon	1.92	-6.9%
146	Kenya	1.9	+0.7%
147	Mali	1.85	-0.2%
148	Guatemala	1.83	-6.3%
149	Fiji	1.8	+3.8%
150	Tunisia	1.75	+2.9%
151	Singapore	1.74	-2.7%
152	Liberia	1.72	-3.4%
153	Mozambique	1.61	+4.8%
154	Azerbaijan	1.59	-3.3%
155	Eritrea	1.55	-0.7%
156	Nigeria	1.52	+3.8%
157	Tanzania	1.46	+3.5%
158	Myanmar	1.45	+7%
159	Zambia	1.4	+15.7%
160	Sudan	1.4	-0%
161	Papua New Guinea	1.36	+6.5%
162	Qatar	1.26	-1%
163	Central African Republic	1.26	+2.8%
164	Gambia	1.15	-10.5%
165	Malawi	1.15	-0.6%
166	Ethiopia	1.15	+11.8%
167	Maldives	1.1	-4.1%
168	Vanuatu	1.04	+95%
169	Togo	1.01	+4.2%
170	Marshall Islands	0.92	+22.5%
171	United Arab Emirates	0.91	+1.9%
172	Madagascar	0.9	+1.4%
173	Micronesia	0.84	-1.7%
174	Tajikistan	0.8	+7.1%
175	Oman	0.8	-6.7%
176	South Sudan	0.75	+9.8%
177	Kiribati	0.74	-2.7%
178	Malaysia	0.71	0%
179	Iraq	0.66	-6.4%
180	Solomon Islands	0.64	-4%
181	Nepal	0.59	-8.3%
182	Algeria	0.5	+7.6%
183	Jordan	0.47	-2.6%
184	Morocco	0.45	-5.1%
185	Djibouti	0.42	-1.5%
186	Sierra Leone	0.36	-1.8%
187	Senegal	0.35	-7.6%
188	Guinea	0.34	+10%
189	Timor-Leste	0.32	+5.6%
190	Syria	0.24	-37.4%
191	Egypt	0.15	+1.3%
192	Comoros	0.12	+12%
193	Kuwait	0.12	-3.3%
194	Niger	0.11	+5.6%
195	Indonesia	0.11	+4.7%
196	Afghanistan	0.1	-5.2%
197	Pakistan	0.07	+2.2%
198	Tonga	0.06	-55.4%
199	Brunei	0.02	0%
200	Iran	0.01	-38.9%
201	Libya	0.01	n/a
202	Bhutan	0	-10.2%
203	Bangladesh	0	+0.8%
204	Mauritania	0	0%
205	Nauru	0	n/a
205	Somalia	0	n/a
205	Yemen	0	n/a

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Total alcohol consumed per person aged 15 and over in the year, in litres of pure alcohol (SDG indicator 3.5.2): recorded consumption from production, trade and sales data plus WHO's estimate of unrecorded consumption, adjusted for consumption by tourists, using three-year averages.

WHO estimates: the unrecorded part is modelled and the three-year averages smooth changes between years. Values are served with every decimal WHO publishes. WHO revises these series, past years included, when new national reports or estimates come in, so values can change between retrievals.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the countries are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.

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World Health Organization, data.who.int. Total alcohol per capita (>= 15 years of age) consumption (litres of pure alcohol) (SA_0000001688) [Indicator]. https://data.who.int/indicators/i/EF38E6A/EE6F72A (Accessed on 2026-10-12). Licensed under CC BY 4.0. No changes made to source values. WHO does not endorse Invokely or this use of the data.

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Which country has the highest alcohol consumption per adult?

U.S. Virgin Islands, with 20.4 litres of pure alcohol in 2013, according to World Health Organization.

Which country has the lowest alcohol consumption per adult?

Yemen, with 0 litres of pure alcohol in 2013.

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Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: World Health Organization, Total alcohol per capita (>= 15 years of age) consumption (litres of pure alcohol) (SA_0000001688). Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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