Countries by alcohol consumption per adult

U.S. Virgin Islands had the highest alcohol consumption per adult of 207 countries in 2017, at 21.86 litres of pure alcohol. Yemen had the lowest, at 0 litres of pure alcohol. The median was 4.93 litres of pure alcohol. Source: World Health Organization.

Highest21.86U.S. Virgin Islands

Lowest0Yemen

Median4.93207 countries

Top 40 countries, 2017

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	2017 litres of pure alcohol	Change on 2016
1	U.S. Virgin Islands	21.86	+5.5%
2	Romania	17.08	+0.7%
3	British Virgin Islands	16.88	+3.8%
4	Turks and Caicos Islands	16.41	-2.5%
5	Georgia	15.3	-0%
6	Cayman Islands	14.17	+2.3%
7	Czechia	13.92	+0.5%
8	Latvia	13.22	+1.8%
9	Curaçao	12.85	-1.7%
10	Aruba	12.74	+5%
11	Bulgaria	12.69	+1.6%
12	France	12.55	-0.8%
13	Mongolia	12.47	-6.3%
14	Portugal	12.39	+2.4%
15	Hungary	12.36	+1.3%
16	Lithuania	12.19	-5%
17	Andorra	12.02	-0.6%
18	Bermuda	12.01	+0.1%
19	Poland	11.89	+0.2%
20	Austria	11.85	+0.7%
21	Germany	11.82	-0.1%
22	Cameroon	11.73	-2.2%
23	Moldova	11.68	+2.4%
24	Saint Lucia	11.67	+2%
25	Spain	11.56	-0.2%
26	Finland	11.44	-1.4%
27	Ireland	11.43	+0.6%
28	Slovakia	11.26	-0.6%
29	Slovenia	11.14	-4.5%
30	Vietnam	11.14	+1.3%
31	Réunion	11.04	-1.8%
32	Montenegro	10.97	+0.3%
33	United Kingdom	10.97	+1.1%
34	Serbia	10.9	+1.3%
35	Russia	10.85	-5.1%
36	Australia	10.71	+0.5%
37	Belarus	10.38	+0.5%
38	Belgium	10.34	-9.9%
39	Cook Islands	10.3	-3.6%
40	Martinique	10.18	+2.6%
41	Malta	10.13	-0.2%
42	Denmark	10.08	-0.6%
43	Canada	9.94	-0.6%
44	Luxembourg	9.91	+9.5%
45	Guadeloupe	9.89	-2.3%
46	Barbados	9.84	+1.4%
47	Croatia	9.73	+1.2%
48	Brazil	9.72	+0.9%
49	Namibia	9.64	+1.9%
50	Saint Kitts and Nevis	9.56	+2.1%
51	Seychelles	9.5	-0.2%
52	Switzerland	9.49	-1.9%
53	New Zealand	9.37	+0.4%
54	New Caledonia	9.32	-4.6%
55	United States	9.31	+0.1%
56	Netherlands	9.23	-0.1%
57	South Korea	9.08	-2.3%
58	Sweden	9.02	-1.2%
59	Estonia	9.01	-11.6%
60	Mauritius	9.01	+1.4%
61	Burkina Faso	8.91	-0.5%
62	Bahamas	8.59	+1.6%
63	Greece	8.5	+0.4%
64	Grenada	8.44	+1.5%
65	Armenia	8.43	+7.7%
66	South Africa	8.32	-0.1%
67	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	8.26	+3.8%
68	Italy	8.22	+3.6%
69	Antigua and Barbuda	8.15	+4.3%
70	French Polynesia	8.09	+0.7%
71	Thailand	7.91	-4%
72	Dominica	7.76	-2.4%
73	Iceland	7.74	-2.1%
74	Gabon	7.68	-7%
75	Panama	7.22	+1%
76	Chile	7.14	-1.1%
77	French Guiana	7.12	-3.9%
78	Argentina	7.1	-3.6%
79	Norway	6.9	-0.1%
80	China	6.63	-8.9%
81	Japan	6.63	-0.5%
82	Uruguay	6.47	-2.2%
83	Angola	6.43	-4.2%
84	Bosnia and Herzegovina	6.42	+2.7%
85	Paraguay	6.38	-0.4%
86	Equatorial Guinea	6.38	-7.9%
87	Belize	6.22	-4.4%
88	Philippines	6.07	+2.8%
89	Cuba	6.07	+0.7%
90	Ukraine	6.06	-3.3%
91	Suriname	6.06	+6.6%
92	Guyana	5.88	-2.9%
93	Mexico	5.86	+3.1%
94	Puerto Rico	5.83	-1.4%
95	North Macedonia	5.51	+4.3%
96	Cyprus	5.41	+0.9%
97	Zimbabwe	5.34	-1.2%
98	Laos	5.31	+4.5%
99	Eswatini	5.29	+6.7%
100	Kyrgyzstan	5.23	-6.6%
101	Peru	5.1	+0.2%
102	Trinidad and Tobago	5.07	-1.9%
103	São Tomé and Príncipe	4.97	-4.8%
104	India	4.93	-0.1%
105	Kazakhstan	4.68	+6.3%
106	Benin	4.65	-3.8%
107	Albania	4.64	-0.1%
108	Dominican Republic	4.6	-0.5%
109	Republic of the Congo	4.54	-1.4%
110	Cape Verde	4.53	+4.7%
111	Nicaragua	4.51	+0.5%
112	Cambodia	4.34	+23.1%
113	Colombia	4.12	-1.7%
114	Israel	4.08	+0.9%
115	Bolivia	4.06	-1.4%
116	Jamaica	4.03	+1.2%
117	Chad	3.87	-7%
118	Botswana	3.86	-1.4%
119	Venezuela	3.82	-24.6%
120	Haiti	3.81	+3.4%
121	Lesotho	3.75	+15%
122	Macao	3.73	-1.4%
123	Costa Rica	3.71	+0.6%
124	Uganda	3.63	-3.8%
125	Burundi	3.61	+1.4%
126	Côte d’Ivoire	3.59	+3.5%
127	Rwanda	3.55	-2.9%
128	Ecuador	3.49	-6.6%
129	El Salvador	3.37	+4.7%
130	Saint Helena	3.29	0%
131	Honduras	3.23	+4%
132	Guinea-Bissau	3.05	+3.1%
133	Samoa	3.03	+3.3%
134	Ghana	3.01	-3.4%
135	Hong Kong	2.86	+1.5%
136	North Korea	2.7	-0.8%
137	Uzbekistan	2.64	-2.2%
138	Sri Lanka	2.58	-1.4%
139	Fiji	2.44	+6.4%
140	Vanuatu	2.13	+31.8%
141	Kenya	2.09	+0.8%
142	Maldives	2.05	-0.1%
143	Lebanon	2.01	+5%
144	Turkmenistan	2.01	-4.6%
145	Ethiopia	1.98	+15.8%
146	Mozambique	1.96	+0.5%
147	Tunisia	1.92	-1.2%
148	Myanmar	1.92	+9%
149	Türkiye	1.89	-0.4%
150	Mali	1.82	-2.6%
151	Liberia	1.8	+1.7%
152	Bahrain	1.8	-6.7%
153	Zambia	1.72	+4.7%
154	Nigeria	1.7	+2.4%
155	Singapore	1.68	+1%
156	Central African Republic	1.67	+2.4%
157	Azerbaijan	1.67	+7.4%
158	Guatemala	1.64	-0.1%
159	Niue	1.61	-1%
160	Democratic Republic of the Congo	1.56	-3.2%
161	Bhutan	1.53	+94.7%
162	Papua New Guinea	1.46	-4.2%
163	Eritrea	1.45	-2.3%
164	Tanzania	1.43	-2.6%
165	Sudan	1.4	0%
166	Qatar	1.19	-2.6%
167	Solomon Islands	1.12	+8.4%
168	Togo	1.1	-0.7%
169	United Arab Emirates	0.98	+0.8%
170	Madagascar	0.98	+1.5%
171	Malawi	0.96	-2%
172	Oman	0.92	+2.8%
173	Tajikistan	0.87	-2.6%
174	Malaysia	0.85	+1.6%
175	Micronesia	0.84	+0.8%
176	Tuvalu	0.76	-50%
177	Nepal	0.75	+2%
178	Marshall Islands	0.73	-11.1%
179	Kiribati	0.7	-0.8%
180	Iraq	0.69	+0.1%
181	Gambia	0.67	-13.7%
182	South Sudan	0.56	-14.5%
183	Algeria	0.5	+2.6%
184	Morocco	0.45	+3.5%
185	Guinea	0.41	-5.6%
186	Senegal	0.4	+4.5%
187	Jordan	0.35	-4.3%
188	Djibouti	0.33	-7.9%
189	Timor-Leste	0.25	-18.1%
190	Syria	0.21	-10.6%
191	Sierra Leone	0.21	-10.4%
192	Tonga	0.2	-1.4%
193	Comoros	0.15	+17%
194	Indonesia	0.11	+2.9%
195	Niger	0.11	-12.2%
196	Egypt	0.11	-7.5%
197	Kuwait	0.1	-9.7%
198	Pakistan	0.09	+6%
199	Afghanistan	0.06	-9%
200	Iran	0.03	+28.5%
201	Mauritania	0	+96.9%
202	Bangladesh	0	-1.3%
203	Libya	0	-79.8%
204	Brunei	0	n/a
204	Nauru	0	n/a
204	Somalia	0	n/a
204	Yemen	0	-100%

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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 21.86 litres of pure alcohol in 2017, according to World Health Organization.

Which country has the lowest alcohol consumption per adult?

Yemen, with 0 litres of pure alcohol in 2017.

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