Countries by alcohol consumption per adult

U.S. Virgin Islands had the highest alcohol consumption per adult of 207 countries in 2019, at 21.86 litres of pure alcohol. Yemen had the lowest, at 0 litres of pure alcohol. The median was 4.81 litres of pure alcohol. Source: World Health Organization.

Highest21.86U.S. Virgin Islands

Lowest0Yemen

Median4.81207 countries

Top 40 countries, 2019

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	2019 litres of pure alcohol	Change on 2018
1	U.S. Virgin Islands	21.86	-3.4%
2	Romania	17	-0.8%
3	Georgia	14.89	-2.5%
4	British Virgin Islands	14.23	-13.9%
5	Latvia	14.08	+3.7%
6	Turks and Caicos Islands	13.98	-12.4%
7	Czechia	13.93	-0.2%
8	Cayman Islands	13.65	-5.1%
9	Bulgaria	12.97	+0.7%
10	Aruba	12.83	-4.8%
11	Cameroon	12.15	+1%
12	Portugal	12.14	-2.1%
13	Poland	12.14	+0.9%
14	France	12.01	-3.5%
15	Hungary	12.01	-1.2%
16	Curaçao	11.99	-5.3%
17	Moldova	11.85	-0.2%
18	Austria	11.77	-0.5%
19	Bermuda	11.73	-2.8%
20	Lithuania	11.68	-0.6%
21	Germany	11.46	-1.8%
22	Andorra	11.39	-4.5%
23	Saint Lucia	11.37	-3%
24	Slovenia	11.23	-0.4%
25	Slovakia	11.13	-2.5%
26	Belarus	11.09	+4%
27	Mongolia	11.05	+0.1%
28	Ireland	11.02	-2.4%
29	Serbia	10.99	-0.5%
30	United Kingdom	10.98	-0.3%
31	Australia	10.98	+2.1%
32	Luxembourg	10.94	+4.8%
33	Vietnam	10.93	-2%
34	Spain	10.84	-5.6%
35	Finland	10.72	-4%
36	Réunion	10.63	-2.8%
37	Montenegro	10.41	-6.7%
38	Cook Islands	10.22	+1.4%
39	Martinique	10.2	-1.9%
40	Russia	10.19	-0.9%
41	Armenia	10.04	+4.5%
42	Denmark	10	+0.7%
43	Canada	9.98	+0.6%
44	Belgium	9.93	-3%
45	Croatia	9.82	-0.8%
46	Brazil	9.7	-0.8%
47	Guadeloupe	9.55	-2.9%
48	Namibia	9.54	-2.8%
49	Barbados	9.47	-4.5%
50	United States	9.4	+1.1%
51	Switzerland	9.39	-0.5%
52	New Zealand	9.36	+0.3%
53	Seychelles	9.31	-3.6%
54	Saint Kitts and Nevis	9.14	-6.6%
55	Netherlands	9.04	-1.7%
56	Sweden	8.99	+1%
57	Malta	8.79	-9.9%
58	South Korea	8.75	-2.2%
59	Mauritius	8.69	-2.6%
60	New Caledonia	8.65	-3.5%
61	Estonia	8.45	+3.6%
62	Italy	8.43	-0.5%
63	Antigua and Barbuda	8.4	-3.1%
64	French Polynesia	8.28	-2.4%
65	Grenada	8.28	-2.9%
66	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	8.2	-3.2%
67	Bahamas	8.07	-6.6%
68	Greece	8.06	-5.4%
69	Iceland	7.88	+2.5%
70	South Africa	7.8	-6.4%
71	Thailand	7.6	-2.7%
72	Gabon	7.41	+1.6%
73	Dominica	7.41	-2.2%
74	Norway	7.02	+2%
75	Chile	6.93	-0.8%
76	French Guiana	6.79	-2.4%
77	Panama	6.73	-8.4%
78	Argentina	6.64	-2.5%
79	Japan	6.46	-1.9%
80	Uruguay	6.38	-0.4%
81	Ukraine	6.36	+5.9%
82	Paraguay	6.36	-0.6%
83	Burkina Faso	6.2	-17.1%
84	Equatorial Guinea	6.19	+0.2%
85	Bosnia and Herzegovina	6.16	-3.5%
86	Suriname	6.14	-2.3%
87	Philippines	6.11	-2%
88	Mexico	6.04	-0.2%
89	Cambodia	6.03	+11.2%
90	Cuba	5.97	-2.9%
91	North Macedonia	5.74	-0.4%
92	Laos	5.58	+1.1%
93	Guyana	5.51	-3%
94	Puerto Rico	5.5	-4.3%
95	Belize	5.42	-9.1%
96	Eswatini	5.36	+0.1%
97	Angola	5.32	-12.6%
98	Zimbabwe	5.2	-3.8%
99	China	5.1	-12.5%
100	Trinidad and Tobago	5.07	-0.3%
101	São Tomé and Príncipe	5	+1.8%
102	Cyprus	4.94	-7.9%
103	Peru	4.82	-5%
104	Dominican Republic	4.81	+2.7%
105	India	4.79	-4%
106	Kazakhstan	4.73	+0.8%
107	Albania	4.54	-3.1%
108	Cape Verde	4.53	-1.4%
109	Benin	4.43	-1.4%
110	Nicaragua	4.22	-4.9%
111	Republic of the Congo	4.18	-5%
112	Israel	4.17	+0.6%
113	Kyrgyzstan	4.14	-12.2%
114	Lesotho	4.11	+1.3%
115	Jamaica	3.97	-3.2%
116	Côte d’Ivoire	3.92	+4.4%
117	Colombia	3.86	-4.8%
118	Botswana	3.85	-1.7%
119	Bolivia	3.82	-4.4%
120	Macao	3.81	+4.7%
121	Uganda	3.65	+2.3%
122	Burundi	3.62	+0.5%
123	Rwanda	3.61	+3%
124	Haiti	3.61	-4.3%
125	Costa Rica	3.6	-0.1%
126	El Salvador	3.52	-0.2%
127	Honduras	3.4	+1.7%
128	Saint Helena	3.29	0%
129	Chad	3.2	-9.7%
130	Ecuador	3.18	-7.1%
131	Guinea-Bissau	3.06	-1.9%
132	Hong Kong	3.03	+4%
133	Samoa	3	-1.5%
134	Uzbekistan	2.87	+8.2%
135	Ghana	2.84	-3.9%
136	North Korea	2.63	-0.8%
137	Venezuela	2.6	-17.4%
138	Fiji	2.52	+1.3%
139	Sri Lanka	2.39	-4.8%
140	Azerbaijan	2.35	+15.9%
141	Ethiopia	2.34	+3.8%
142	Bhutan	2.3	+16.7%
143	Maldives	2.19	+5.2%
144	Myanmar	2.13	0%
145	Lebanon	2.03	-2.1%
146	Niue	2.01	+21%
147	Mozambique	1.98	-0.4%
148	Kenya	1.96	-5.1%
149	Liberia	1.92	-1.1%
150	Guatemala	1.92	+6.1%
151	Zambia	1.91	+4%
152	Singapore	1.9	+11.9%
153	Tunisia	1.82	-5.5%
154	Türkiye	1.82	-2.1%
155	Bahrain	1.79	-2%
156	Nigeria	1.77	-0.1%
157	Turkmenistan	1.72	-9.1%
158	Central African Republic	1.7	+3%
159	Vanuatu	1.63	-22.6%
160	Mali	1.44	+7.4%
161	Democratic Republic of the Congo	1.43	-4.7%
162	Eritrea	1.42	-0.9%
163	Sudan	1.4	0%
164	Tanzania	1.37	-0.2%
165	Papua New Guinea	1.22	-12.8%
166	Togo	1.19	+7.7%
167	Qatar	1.18	-2.4%
168	Nepal	1.13	+37.2%
169	Madagascar	0.96	-1.4%
170	Malawi	0.88	+0.2%
171	Oman	0.85	-9.5%
172	Malaysia	0.82	-4.1%
173	Micronesia	0.82	-2.7%
174	United Arab Emirates	0.8	-4%
175	Tajikistan	0.8	-5.5%
176	Solomon Islands	0.75	-29.4%
177	Kiribati	0.67	-3.1%
178	Iraq	0.67	-2.4%
179	Marshall Islands	0.66	-0.9%
180	South Sudan	0.57	+4.9%
181	Algeria	0.48	-4.6%
182	Gambia	0.47	-14%
183	Guinea	0.46	+8.9%
184	Morocco	0.44	-5%
185	Senegal	0.39	-3.6%
186	Djibouti	0.31	-1%
187	Jordan	0.29	-11.7%
188	Sierra Leone	0.24	+5.4%
189	Tonga	0.2	-1.7%
190	Syria	0.18	-10.2%
191	Comoros	0.14	-2.4%
192	Egypt	0.1	-7.9%
193	Indonesia	0.1	-10.8%
194	Pakistan	0.09	-5.2%
195	Niger	0.09	+2%
196	Kuwait	0.08	-8.6%
197	Timor-Leste	0.07	-57.3%
198	Afghanistan	0.05	-9.7%
199	Iran	0.02	-11.7%
200	Bangladesh	0	-1.5%
201	Mauritania	0	-50.8%
202	Libya	0	+98.1%
203	Brunei	0	n/a
203	Nauru	0	n/a
203	Somalia	0	n/a
203	Tuvalu	0	n/a
203	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 21.86 litres of pure alcohol in 2019, according to World Health Organization.

Which country has the lowest alcohol consumption per adult?

Yemen, with 0 litres of pure alcohol in 2019.

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