Countries by alcohol consumption per adult

U.S. Virgin Islands had the highest alcohol consumption per adult of 207 countries in 2016, at 20.72 litres of pure alcohol. Somalia had the lowest, at 0 litres of pure alcohol. The median was 4.95 litres of pure alcohol. Source: World Health Organization.

Highest20.72U.S. Virgin Islands

Lowest0Somalia

Median4.95207 countries

Top 40 countries, 2016

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	2016 litres of pure alcohol	Change on 2015
1	U.S. Virgin Islands	20.72	+2.1%
2	Romania	16.95	0%
3	Turks and Caicos Islands	16.82	+39%
4	British Virgin Islands	16.27	+5.1%
5	Georgia	15.31	0%
6	Czechia	13.86	-0.1%
7	Cayman Islands	13.85	+5.2%
8	Mongolia	13.3	-15.1%
9	Curaçao	13.08	+0.2%
10	Latvia	12.98	+2.3%
11	Lithuania	12.84	+5.8%
12	France	12.65	-0.7%
13	Bulgaria	12.49	+2.5%
14	Hungary	12.21	-0.2%
15	Aruba	12.14	+2.5%
16	Portugal	12.1	+3.1%
17	Andorra	12.09	+0.4%
18	Bermuda	11.99	+0.7%
19	Cameroon	11.99	-3.1%
20	Poland	11.87	+0.1%
21	Germany	11.83	-0.9%
22	Austria	11.76	-2%
23	Slovenia	11.66	-2.5%
24	Finland	11.6	-2.1%
25	Spain	11.58	+1.6%
26	Belgium	11.48	-8.1%
27	Saint Lucia	11.45	+2.7%
28	Russia	11.44	-6.4%
29	Moldova	11.41	+0.5%
30	Ireland	11.36	-0.2%
31	Slovakia	11.32	-1.6%
32	Réunion	11.24	+1%
33	Vietnam	10.99	+3.3%
34	Montenegro	10.95	+1.8%
35	United Kingdom	10.85	+1%
36	Serbia	10.77	+1.3%
37	Cook Islands	10.68	+3.1%
38	Australia	10.65	+1.4%
39	Belarus	10.33	-4.9%
40	Estonia	10.19	-7.4%
41	Malta	10.15	+1.1%
42	Denmark	10.15	-1.3%
43	Guadeloupe	10.12	-1.1%
44	Canada	10	+0.5%
45	Martinique	9.92	+2.3%
46	New Caledonia	9.78	-1.5%
47	Barbados	9.7	+2.1%
48	Switzerland	9.67	-1.2%
49	Brazil	9.64	+0.3%
50	Croatia	9.61	+1.9%
51	Seychelles	9.52	-0.3%
52	Namibia	9.46	+3%
53	Saint Kitts and Nevis	9.36	+1.7%
54	New Zealand	9.33	-1%
55	United States	9.29	0%
56	South Korea	9.29	-1.2%
57	Netherlands	9.24	-0.7%
58	Sweden	9.13	-1.1%
59	Luxembourg	9.05	+5.1%
60	Burkina Faso	8.95	-3.1%
61	Mauritius	8.89	+2.2%
62	Greece	8.47	-0%
63	Bahamas	8.45	+1.1%
64	South Africa	8.33	-0.7%
65	Grenada	8.32	+1.4%
66	Gabon	8.26	-5.4%
67	Thailand	8.24	+1.5%
68	French Polynesia	8.03	+0.9%
69	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	7.95	+6%
70	Dominica	7.95	-0.6%
71	Italy	7.93	+1%
72	Iceland	7.91	+0.2%
73	Armenia	7.82	+8.8%
74	Antigua and Barbuda	7.81	+4.2%
75	French Guiana	7.41	-4.4%
76	Argentina	7.36	+0.3%
77	China	7.28	-2.2%
78	Chile	7.23	-0.1%
79	Panama	7.14	+1.6%
80	Equatorial Guinea	6.93	-8.7%
81	Norway	6.9	-0.3%
82	Angola	6.71	-9.7%
83	Japan	6.67	+0.3%
84	Uruguay	6.61	-2.4%
85	Belize	6.5	-3.1%
86	Paraguay	6.41	-1.4%
87	Ukraine	6.27	-11.2%
88	Bosnia and Herzegovina	6.25	+4.3%
89	Guyana	6.05	-3.2%
90	Cuba	6.03	+0.9%
91	Puerto Rico	5.91	-2.1%
92	Philippines	5.91	+0.9%
93	Suriname	5.68	+1.5%
94	Mexico	5.68	+4.3%
95	Kyrgyzstan	5.6	-7.4%
96	Zimbabwe	5.4	-3.5%
97	Cyprus	5.37	+0.9%
98	North Macedonia	5.28	+2.5%
99	São Tomé and Príncipe	5.22	-9.2%
100	Trinidad and Tobago	5.17	-2.5%
101	Peru	5.09	+0.2%
102	Laos	5.08	+5.2%
103	Venezuela	5.07	-18.4%
104	Eswatini	4.95	+1.2%
105	India	4.93	-2.1%
106	Benin	4.84	-3.3%
107	Albania	4.64	+0.9%
108	Dominican Republic	4.63	-2.6%
109	Republic of the Congo	4.6	-1.6%
110	Nicaragua	4.49	+2.6%
111	Kazakhstan	4.4	+0.8%
112	Cape Verde	4.33	+10%
113	Colombia	4.2	-1.4%
114	Chad	4.16	-6%
115	Bolivia	4.12	-1.2%
116	Israel	4.05	0%
117	Jamaica	3.98	0%
118	Botswana	3.92	-0.5%
119	Macao	3.78	-4.1%
120	Uganda	3.78	-6.2%
121	Ecuador	3.73	-7.9%
122	Costa Rica	3.69	+0.6%
123	Haiti	3.69	+4.7%
124	Rwanda	3.66	-0.8%
125	Burundi	3.56	+2.3%
126	Cambodia	3.53	+20.8%
127	Côte d’Ivoire	3.47	+3.9%
128	Saint Helena	3.29	0%
129	Lesotho	3.26	+5.1%
130	El Salvador	3.22	+4.4%
131	Ghana	3.11	-2.8%
132	Honduras	3.1	+2.9%
133	Guinea-Bissau	2.96	+4.9%
134	Samoa	2.93	+1.3%
135	Hong Kong	2.82	+0.3%
136	North Korea	2.73	-0.8%
137	Uzbekistan	2.7	+4%
138	Sri Lanka	2.62	+1.5%
139	Fiji	2.3	+11.7%
140	Turkmenistan	2.1	-2.3%
141	Kenya	2.08	+3.8%
142	Maldives	2.06	-1%
143	Mozambique	1.95	+4.3%
144	Tunisia	1.95	+1.8%
145	Bahrain	1.93	-7.4%
146	Lebanon	1.92	+3.2%
147	Türkiye	1.9	-3.3%
148	Mali	1.87	-2.3%
149	Liberia	1.77	+4.2%
150	Myanmar	1.76	+9.3%
151	Ethiopia	1.71	+14.7%
152	Nigeria	1.66	+1.8%
153	Singapore	1.66	-1.4%
154	Zambia	1.65	+2.6%
155	Guatemala	1.64	-1.3%
156	Central African Republic	1.63	+5.6%
157	Niue	1.63	-4.9%
158	Vanuatu	1.61	+0.7%
159	Democratic Republic of the Congo	1.61	-8.8%
160	Azerbaijan	1.55	-2.6%
161	Papua New Guinea	1.53	+10.5%
162	Tuvalu	1.53	-33.4%
163	Eritrea	1.48	-2%
164	Tanzania	1.47	-1.9%
165	Sudan	1.4	-0%
166	Qatar	1.22	-0.3%
167	Togo	1.11	+0.5%
168	Solomon Islands	1.03	+41.3%
169	Malawi	0.98	-5.9%
170	United Arab Emirates	0.97	+2.5%
171	Madagascar	0.96	+0.4%
172	Tajikistan	0.9	+1%
173	Oman	0.89	+5.5%
174	Malaysia	0.84	+7.6%
175	Micronesia	0.84	+1.2%
176	Marshall Islands	0.83	-16.8%
177	Bhutan	0.78	+125%
178	Gambia	0.78	-10.9%
179	Nepal	0.73	+12.6%
180	Kiribati	0.71	-0.2%
181	Iraq	0.69	+3.9%
182	South Sudan	0.66	-8%
183	Algeria	0.49	-2.4%
184	Guinea	0.44	-0.2%
185	Morocco	0.43	+3.7%
186	Senegal	0.38	+6.4%
187	Jordan	0.36	-8.5%
188	Djibouti	0.36	-7%
189	Timor-Leste	0.31	+2.4%
190	Syria	0.24	-13%
191	Sierra Leone	0.23	-12.4%
192	Tonga	0.21	+21.9%
193	Comoros	0.13	+7.8%
194	Niger	0.13	-4.2%
195	Egypt	0.12	-11.3%
196	Indonesia	0.11	-2.3%
197	Kuwait	0.11	-7.5%
198	Pakistan	0.09	+7.6%
199	Afghanistan	0.07	-14.6%
200	Iran	0.02	+45.4%
201	Libya	0	-54.6%
202	Bangladesh	0	-1.5%
203	Mauritania	0	n/a
204	Yemen	0	0%
205	Brunei	0	n/a
205	Nauru	0	n/a
205	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 20.72 litres of pure alcohol in 2016, according to World Health Organization.

Which country has the lowest alcohol consumption per adult?

Somalia, with 0 litres of pure alcohol in 2016.

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