Countries by alcohol consumption per adult
U.S. Virgin Islands had the highest alcohol consumption per adult of 207 countries in 2015, at 20.29 litres of pure alcohol. Somalia had the lowest, at 0 litres of pure alcohol. The median was 5 litres of pure alcohol. Source: World Health Organization.
Top 40 countries, 2015
Full ranking
| Rank | Countries | 2015 | Change on 2014 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | U.S. Virgin Islands | 20.29 | +0.6% |
| 2 | Romania | 16.95 | -0.6% |
| 3 | Mongolia | 15.67 | -15.7% |
| 4 | British Virgin Islands | 15.47 | -0.8% |
| 5 | Georgia | 15.3 | -0% |
| 6 | Czechia | 13.87 | +0.8% |
| 7 | Cayman Islands | 13.16 | +3.2% |
| 8 | Curaçao | 13.06 | -0.2% |
| 9 | France | 12.74 | +0.2% |
| 10 | Latvia | 12.69 | +0.7% |
| 11 | Belgium | 12.49 | -5.6% |
| 12 | Cameroon | 12.38 | -3.1% |
| 13 | Hungary | 12.23 | +1.4% |
| 14 | Russia | 12.23 | -4.3% |
| 15 | Bulgaria | 12.18 | +1.2% |
| 16 | Lithuania | 12.13 | -5.9% |
| 17 | Turks and Caicos Islands | 12.11 | +70% |
| 18 | Andorra | 12.05 | +1% |
| 19 | Austria | 12 | -1.4% |
| 20 | Slovenia | 11.97 | +2.1% |
| 21 | Germany | 11.94 | -0.8% |
| 22 | Bermuda | 11.91 | -0.3% |
| 23 | Poland | 11.86 | -1% |
| 24 | Finland | 11.85 | -2.3% |
| 25 | Aruba | 11.84 | +0.5% |
| 26 | Portugal | 11.73 | +3.6% |
| 27 | Slovakia | 11.51 | -0.1% |
| 28 | Spain | 11.4 | +2.1% |
| 29 | Ireland | 11.39 | +1% |
| 30 | Moldova | 11.35 | -2.8% |
| 31 | Saint Lucia | 11.15 | +2.7% |
| 32 | Réunion | 11.13 | +1.4% |
| 33 | Estonia | 11 | -3.9% |
| 34 | Belarus | 10.86 | -8% |
| 35 | Montenegro | 10.75 | +0.8% |
| 36 | United Kingdom | 10.74 | +0.5% |
| 37 | Vietnam | 10.64 | +3% |
| 38 | Serbia | 10.63 | +0.7% |
| 39 | Australia | 10.5 | +0.4% |
| 40 | Cook Islands | 10.36 | +1.8% |
| 41 | Denmark | 10.28 | -0.3% |
| 42 | Guadeloupe | 10.23 | -0.4% |
| 43 | Malta | 10.04 | +2.1% |
| 44 | Canada | 9.96 | +0.4% |
| 45 | New Caledonia | 9.93 | -0.1% |
| 46 | Switzerland | 9.79 | -1.8% |
| 47 | Martinique | 9.7 | +0.4% |
| 48 | Brazil | 9.61 | +1.6% |
| 49 | Seychelles | 9.55 | +2.7% |
| 50 | Barbados | 9.5 | +2.2% |
| 51 | New Zealand | 9.43 | -1.5% |
| 52 | Croatia | 9.43 | +0.6% |
| 53 | South Korea | 9.4 | -0.4% |
| 54 | Netherlands | 9.31 | -1.3% |
| 55 | United States | 9.29 | +0.1% |
| 56 | Burkina Faso | 9.24 | +0.3% |
| 57 | Sweden | 9.23 | -1.8% |
| 58 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 9.21 | +1.2% |
| 59 | Namibia | 9.18 | +3.5% |
| 60 | Gabon | 8.73 | -1.6% |
| 61 | Mauritius | 8.7 | +2.4% |
| 62 | Luxembourg | 8.61 | +8.5% |
| 63 | Greece | 8.47 | -0.4% |
| 64 | South Africa | 8.39 | -0.4% |
| 65 | Bahamas | 8.36 | +1.4% |
| 66 | Grenada | 8.21 | +1% |
| 67 | Thailand | 8.12 | +0.8% |
| 68 | Dominica | 8 | -0% |
| 69 | French Polynesia | 7.96 | -0.4% |
| 70 | Iceland | 7.89 | +0.6% |
| 71 | Italy | 7.85 | -1.1% |
| 72 | French Guiana | 7.74 | -1.7% |
| 73 | Equatorial Guinea | 7.59 | -4.5% |
| 74 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 7.5 | +5.4% |
| 75 | Antigua and Barbuda | 7.5 | +1% |
| 76 | China | 7.44 | +0.9% |
| 77 | Angola | 7.44 | -8.7% |
| 78 | Argentina | 7.34 | -0.8% |
| 79 | Chile | 7.23 | +0.8% |
| 80 | Armenia | 7.19 | +0.9% |
| 81 | Ukraine | 7.06 | -9.8% |
| 82 | Panama | 7.03 | -0.1% |
| 83 | Norway | 6.92 | -0.8% |
| 84 | Uruguay | 6.78 | -1.9% |
| 85 | Belize | 6.71 | -0.8% |
| 86 | Japan | 6.65 | -0.7% |
| 87 | Paraguay | 6.5 | -2.1% |
| 88 | Guyana | 6.25 | -1.3% |
| 89 | Venezuela | 6.21 | -13.3% |
| 90 | Kyrgyzstan | 6.05 | -3.6% |
| 91 | Puerto Rico | 6.04 | -0.6% |
| 92 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 5.99 | +3.1% |
| 93 | Cuba | 5.97 | +1.4% |
| 94 | Philippines | 5.85 | +0.1% |
| 95 | São Tomé and Príncipe | 5.75 | -5.4% |
| 96 | Zimbabwe | 5.6 | -1.6% |
| 97 | Suriname | 5.6 | -1.4% |
| 98 | Mexico | 5.44 | +3.4% |
| 99 | Cyprus | 5.32 | +1.3% |
| 100 | Trinidad and Tobago | 5.31 | -1.8% |
| 101 | North Macedonia | 5.15 | +0.6% |
| 102 | Peru | 5.08 | +0.6% |
| 103 | India | 5.03 | -1.3% |
| 104 | Benin | 5 | -6.2% |
| 105 | Eswatini | 4.89 | -4% |
| 106 | Laos | 4.83 | +4.1% |
| 107 | Dominican Republic | 4.75 | -2.1% |
| 108 | Republic of the Congo | 4.68 | +0.2% |
| 109 | Albania | 4.6 | -0.6% |
| 110 | Chad | 4.43 | +1.6% |
| 111 | Nicaragua | 4.38 | +1.9% |
| 112 | Kazakhstan | 4.36 | -1.7% |
| 113 | Colombia | 4.26 | -1.8% |
| 114 | Bolivia | 4.17 | -0.3% |
| 115 | Ecuador | 4.05 | -5.1% |
| 116 | Israel | 4.04 | -1.4% |
| 117 | Uganda | 4.03 | -9.7% |
| 118 | Jamaica | 3.98 | -0.9% |
| 119 | Macao | 3.94 | -1.1% |
| 120 | Botswana | 3.94 | +5.4% |
| 121 | Cape Verde | 3.94 | +12.7% |
| 122 | Rwanda | 3.69 | +28.7% |
| 123 | Costa Rica | 3.67 | +3% |
| 124 | Haiti | 3.52 | +1.1% |
| 125 | Burundi | 3.48 | -1.6% |
| 126 | Côte d’Ivoire | 3.34 | +5.3% |
| 127 | Saint Helena | 3.29 | 0% |
| 128 | Ghana | 3.2 | -3.4% |
| 129 | Lesotho | 3.1 | +3.1% |
| 130 | El Salvador | 3.09 | +3.8% |
| 131 | Honduras | 3.02 | -1.9% |
| 132 | Cambodia | 2.92 | +21.3% |
| 133 | Samoa | 2.89 | -4.8% |
| 134 | Guinea-Bissau | 2.82 | +1.8% |
| 135 | Hong Kong | 2.81 | -1.3% |
| 136 | North Korea | 2.75 | +0.1% |
| 137 | Uzbekistan | 2.59 | +6.6% |
| 138 | Sri Lanka | 2.58 | -0.4% |
| 139 | Tuvalu | 2.29 | -0.2% |
| 140 | Turkmenistan | 2.15 | -1.7% |
| 141 | Bahrain | 2.09 | -5.9% |
| 142 | Maldives | 2.08 | +32.1% |
| 143 | Fiji | 2.06 | +5.4% |
| 144 | Kenya | 2 | +3.1% |
| 145 | Türkiye | 1.96 | -3.7% |
| 146 | Tunisia | 1.91 | +3.7% |
| 147 | Mali | 1.91 | +3.3% |
| 148 | Mozambique | 1.87 | +8.2% |
| 149 | Lebanon | 1.86 | +1.2% |
| 150 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 1.76 | -7.5% |
| 151 | Niue | 1.71 | -4.6% |
| 152 | Liberia | 1.7 | -1.4% |
| 153 | Singapore | 1.68 | -0.3% |
| 154 | Guatemala | 1.67 | -4.2% |
| 155 | Nigeria | 1.63 | +2.4% |
| 156 | Myanmar | 1.62 | +6.6% |
| 157 | Zambia | 1.6 | +4.8% |
| 158 | Vanuatu | 1.6 | +51.8% |
| 159 | Azerbaijan | 1.59 | +3% |
| 160 | Central African Republic | 1.55 | +14.6% |
| 161 | Eritrea | 1.51 | -1.9% |
| 162 | Tanzania | 1.49 | +1.4% |
| 163 | Ethiopia | 1.49 | +17.2% |
| 164 | Sudan | 1.4 | 0% |
| 165 | Papua New Guinea | 1.38 | +1.6% |
| 166 | Qatar | 1.22 | -2.9% |
| 167 | Togo | 1.1 | +2.5% |
| 168 | Malawi | 1.04 | -6.6% |
| 169 | Marshall Islands | 0.99 | -1.5% |
| 170 | Madagascar | 0.96 | +3.4% |
| 171 | United Arab Emirates | 0.95 | +1.5% |
| 172 | Tajikistan | 0.89 | +4.2% |
| 173 | Gambia | 0.88 | -8.4% |
| 174 | Oman | 0.84 | +4% |
| 175 | Micronesia | 0.83 | +0.1% |
| 176 | Malaysia | 0.78 | +6% |
| 177 | Solomon Islands | 0.73 | +14% |
| 178 | South Sudan | 0.71 | -8.5% |
| 179 | Kiribati | 0.71 | -1% |
| 180 | Iraq | 0.66 | +1.6% |
| 181 | Nepal | 0.65 | +4.6% |
| 182 | Algeria | 0.5 | -1% |
| 183 | Guinea | 0.44 | +11.2% |
| 184 | Morocco | 0.42 | -3% |
| 185 | Jordan | 0.4 | -7.8% |
| 186 | Djibouti | 0.39 | -4.5% |
| 187 | Senegal | 0.36 | +6.9% |
| 188 | Bhutan | 0.35 | +10,980.3% |
| 189 | Timor-Leste | 0.3 | -2.1% |
| 190 | Syria | 0.27 | +6.3% |
| 191 | Sierra Leone | 0.27 | -20.6% |
| 192 | Tonga | 0.17 | +45.6% |
| 193 | Egypt | 0.13 | -8.6% |
| 194 | Niger | 0.13 | +8.8% |
| 195 | Comoros | 0.12 | +9.3% |
| 196 | Kuwait | 0.11 | -3.8% |
| 197 | Indonesia | 0.11 | -1% |
| 198 | Pakistan | 0.08 | +10.7% |
| 199 | Afghanistan | 0.08 | -13.2% |
| 200 | Iran | 0.01 | +41.4% |
| 201 | Libya | 0.01 | +10.1% |
| 202 | Bangladesh | 0 | -0.7% |
| 203 | Yemen | 0 | 0% |
| 204 | Brunei | 0 | |
| 204 | Mauritania | 0 | |
| 204 | Nauru | 0 | |
| 204 | Somalia | 0 |
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About this ranking
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.Use this data in your AI agent
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Which country has the highest alcohol consumption per adult?
U.S. Virgin Islands, with 20.29 litres of pure alcohol in 2015, according to World Health Organization.
Which country has the lowest alcohol consumption per adult?
Somalia, with 0 litres of pure alcohol in 2015.
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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.