Countries by alcohol consumption per adult

U.S. Virgin Islands had the highest alcohol consumption per adult of 207 countries in 2014, at 20.18 litres of pure alcohol. Somalia had the lowest, at 0 litres of pure alcohol. The median was 5.09 litres of pure alcohol. Source: World Health Organization.

Highest20.18U.S. Virgin Islands

Lowest0Somalia

Median5.09207 countries

Top 40 countries, 2014

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	2014 litres of pure alcohol	Change on 2013
1	U.S. Virgin Islands	20.18	-1.1%
2	Mongolia	18.58	+6.5%
3	Romania	17.05	-0.4%
4	British Virgin Islands	15.59	-2.4%
5	Georgia	15.31	-0.2%
6	Czechia	13.76	-0.2%
7	Belgium	13.23	+6.9%
8	Curaçao	13.08	-0.3%
9	Lithuania	12.89	-4.7%
10	Russia	12.78	-5.4%
11	Cameroon	12.77	-0.9%
12	Cayman Islands	12.76	+0.6%
13	France	12.71	-0.9%
14	Latvia	12.6	0%
15	Austria	12.16	-2.7%
16	Finland	12.13	-1.6%
17	Hungary	12.06	-0.7%
18	Bulgaria	12.04	+0.7%
19	Germany	12.04	-1%
20	Poland	11.99	+0.7%
21	Bermuda	11.95	-0.1%
22	Andorra	11.93	-0.2%
23	Belarus	11.8	-9.2%
24	Aruba	11.78	-0.1%
25	Slovenia	11.72	+1.1%
26	Moldova	11.68	-2.6%
27	Slovakia	11.51	+0.2%
28	Estonia	11.44	-0.6%
29	Portugal	11.33	+1.9%
30	Ireland	11.28	-2.9%
31	Spain	11.17	+0.7%
32	Réunion	10.98	+1%
33	Saint Lucia	10.86	-0.4%
34	United Kingdom	10.68	-0%
35	Montenegro	10.66	-0.3%
36	Serbia	10.55	+0.1%
37	Australia	10.46	+0.1%
38	Vietnam	10.33	+2.5%
39	Denmark	10.31	+0.3%
40	Guadeloupe	10.27	-0.2%
41	Cook Islands	10.19	+2.9%
42	Switzerland	9.97	-1.1%
43	New Caledonia	9.94	+1.1%
44	Canada	9.92	-0.3%
45	Malta	9.84	+2.1%
46	Martinique	9.66	-0.1%
47	New Zealand	9.58	-2.3%
48	Brazil	9.47	-3.3%
49	South Korea	9.43	+0.4%
50	Netherlands	9.42	-2.8%
51	Sweden	9.4	+0.9%
52	Croatia	9.37	+0.9%
53	Barbados	9.3	+1.8%
54	Seychelles	9.3	0%
55	United States	9.28	-0.4%
56	Burkina Faso	9.21	+1.2%
57	Saint Kitts and Nevis	9.09	+0.3%
58	Gabon	8.88	+3.1%
59	Namibia	8.86	+2.8%
60	Greece	8.5	-0.2%
61	Mauritius	8.5	+1.1%
62	South Africa	8.43	+0.1%
63	Bahamas	8.24	+1.7%
64	Angola	8.14	-6.5%
65	Grenada	8.13	+0.7%
66	Thailand	8.06	-0.8%
67	Dominica	8	-0.1%
68	French Polynesia	7.99	-2%
69	Equatorial Guinea	7.95	-4.3%
70	Italy	7.94	-1.4%
71	Luxembourg	7.93	+4.2%
72	French Guiana	7.88	-3.7%
73	Iceland	7.84	+2%
74	Ukraine	7.83	-7.6%
75	Antigua and Barbuda	7.43	+2.2%
76	Argentina	7.4	+2.4%
77	China	7.38	+1.8%
78	Chile	7.17	+0.5%
79	Venezuela	7.16	-2.8%
80	Armenia	7.13	+0.1%
81	Turks and Caicos Islands	7.12	+239.6%
82	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	7.12	+3.7%
83	Panama	7.03	+0.9%
84	Norway	6.98	-1.1%
85	Uruguay	6.91	+0.7%
86	Belize	6.76	-0.1%
87	Japan	6.69	-0.2%
88	Paraguay	6.64	-2.1%
89	Guyana	6.33	-0.6%
90	Kyrgyzstan	6.28	-3.1%
91	Puerto Rico	6.08	+1.1%
92	São Tomé and Príncipe	6.08	-4.3%
93	Cuba	5.89	+2.3%
94	Philippines	5.85	-3.8%
95	Bosnia and Herzegovina	5.82	-0.4%
96	Zimbabwe	5.69	-0.5%
97	Suriname	5.68	-5.5%
98	Trinidad and Tobago	5.41	-0.5%
99	Benin	5.34	-3.7%
100	Mexico	5.26	+2.4%
101	Cyprus	5.25	-2.8%
102	North Macedonia	5.12	+0.5%
103	India	5.1	-0.4%
104	Eswatini	5.09	+2.7%
105	Peru	5.05	-0.2%
106	Dominican Republic	4.85	-3.3%
107	Republic of the Congo	4.67	-0.1%
108	Laos	4.64	+1.2%
109	Albania	4.63	-0.4%
110	Uganda	4.46	-6.2%
111	Kazakhstan	4.44	-3.3%
112	Chad	4.36	+3.2%
113	Colombia	4.33	-2.1%
114	Nicaragua	4.3	+0.9%
115	Ecuador	4.27	-1.8%
116	Bolivia	4.18	-0.1%
117	Israel	4.1	-1.8%
118	Jamaica	4.02	+1.2%
119	Macao	3.99	-6%
120	Botswana	3.74	+9.6%
121	Costa Rica	3.56	-0%
122	Burundi	3.54	+5.6%
123	Cape Verde	3.49	+4.5%
124	Haiti	3.48	+3.9%
125	Ghana	3.31	-1.1%
126	Saint Helena	3.29	-20.7%
127	Côte d’Ivoire	3.17	+6.5%
128	Honduras	3.08	-2.4%
129	Samoa	3.04	-5.4%
130	Lesotho	3.01	+9%
131	El Salvador	2.98	+1.7%
132	Rwanda	2.87	+38.8%
133	Hong Kong	2.85	-2.1%
134	Guinea-Bissau	2.77	-0.1%
135	North Korea	2.74	-0.8%
136	Sri Lanka	2.59	-2.7%
137	Uzbekistan	2.43	+10.2%
138	Cambodia	2.41	+14.9%
139	Tuvalu	2.29	-0.5%
140	Bahrain	2.22	-4.8%
141	Turkmenistan	2.19	+1.4%
142	Türkiye	2.04	-4.6%
143	Fiji	1.95	+8.4%
144	Kenya	1.94	+2.3%
145	Democratic Republic of the Congo	1.91	-3.6%
146	Mali	1.85	+0.2%
147	Tunisia	1.85	+5.4%
148	Lebanon	1.84	-4.4%
149	Niue	1.79	-38.4%
150	Guatemala	1.74	-4.8%
151	Mozambique	1.73	+7%
152	Liberia	1.73	+0.4%
153	Singapore	1.69	-3.1%
154	Nigeria	1.6	+4.6%
155	Maldives	1.57	+43.4%
156	Azerbaijan	1.55	-2.9%
157	Eritrea	1.54	-0.4%
158	Zambia	1.53	+9%
159	Myanmar	1.52	+4.8%
160	Tanzania	1.47	+1.2%
161	Sudan	1.4	0%
162	Papua New Guinea	1.36	+0.2%
163	Central African Republic	1.35	+7.3%
164	Ethiopia	1.27	+11.1%
165	Qatar	1.26	-0.1%
166	Malawi	1.11	-3.4%
167	Togo	1.07	+5.9%
168	Vanuatu	1.06	+1.1%
169	Marshall Islands	1.01	+8.9%
170	Gambia	0.96	-17.1%
171	United Arab Emirates	0.94	+2.4%
172	Madagascar	0.93	+3%
173	Tajikistan	0.85	+6.3%
174	Micronesia	0.83	-1.3%
175	Oman	0.81	+1.3%
176	South Sudan	0.78	+4.2%
177	Malaysia	0.73	+3.1%
178	Kiribati	0.72	-2.7%
179	Iraq	0.65	-1.8%
180	Solomon Islands	0.64	+0.4%
181	Nepal	0.62	+4.7%
182	Algeria	0.51	+2.1%
183	Jordan	0.43	-7.9%
184	Morocco	0.43	-4.8%
185	Djibouti	0.41	-2.2%
186	Guinea	0.39	+16.7%
187	Sierra Leone	0.34	-5.2%
188	Senegal	0.33	-3.6%
189	Timor-Leste	0.31	-2.2%
190	Syria	0.26	+7.2%
191	Egypt	0.15	-2.5%
192	Niger	0.12	+5.9%
193	Kuwait	0.12	-1.3%
194	Tonga	0.12	+83.5%
195	Indonesia	0.11	-1.1%
196	Comoros	0.11	-11.3%
197	Afghanistan	0.09	-12.1%
198	Pakistan	0.07	+8.7%
199	Iran	0.01	-16.1%
200	Libya	0.01	+66.3%
201	Bhutan	0	-33%
202	Bangladesh	0	+1%
203	Yemen	0	n/a
204	Brunei	0	-100%
204	Mauritania	0	-100%
204	Nauru	0	n/a
204	Somalia	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 20.18 litres of pure alcohol in 2014, according to World Health Organization.

Which country has the lowest alcohol consumption per adult?

Somalia, with 0 litres of pure alcohol in 2014.

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