Countries by alcohol consumption per adult

U.S. Virgin Islands had the highest alcohol consumption per adult of 207 countries in 2020, at 20.64 litres of pure alcohol. Yemen had the lowest, at 0 litres of pure alcohol. The median was 4.62 litres of pure alcohol. Source: World Health Organization.

Highest20.64U.S. Virgin Islands

Lowest0Yemen

Median4.62207 countries

Top 40 countries, 2020

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	2020 litres of pure alcohol	Change on 2019
1	U.S. Virgin Islands	20.64	-5.6%
2	Romania	16.93	-0.4%
3	Latvia	14.69	+4.3%
4	Georgia	14.58	-2.1%
5	Czechia	13.82	-0.8%
6	Bulgaria	13.02	+0.4%
7	Cayman Islands	12.95	-5.1%
8	Turks and Caicos Islands	12.71	-9.1%
9	Cameroon	12.51	+3%
10	British Virgin Islands	12.35	-13.2%
11	Moldova	12.25	+3.4%
12	Poland	12.25	+0.9%
13	Aruba	12.23	-4.7%
14	Portugal	12.23	+0.7%
15	Lithuania	12.08	+3.4%
16	Austria	11.84	+0.6%
17	Curaçao	11.7	-2.4%
18	Hungary	11.69	-2.6%
19	France	11.66	-2.9%
20	Belarus	11.51	+3.8%
21	Slovenia	11.45	+2%
22	Bermuda	11.43	-2.5%
23	Saint Lucia	11.32	-0.5%
24	Luxembourg	11.31	+3.4%
25	Andorra	11.24	-1.4%
26	Germany	11.19	-2.3%
27	Australia	11.14	+1.4%
28	United Kingdom	11.03	+0.4%
29	Serbia	10.91	-0.7%
30	Spain	10.87	+0.3%
31	Cook Islands	10.77	+5.4%
32	Ireland	10.69	-3%
33	Réunion	10.65	+0.2%
34	Vietnam	10.61	-2.9%
35	Slovakia	10.39	-6.6%
36	Denmark	10.25	+2.5%
37	Montenegro	10.21	-1.9%
38	Finland	10.17	-5.2%
39	Russia	10.1	-0.9%
40	Martinique	10.08	-1.2%
41	Canada	10.03	+0.5%
42	Croatia	9.92	+1%
43	Brazil	9.7	-0%
44	Belgium	9.67	-2.6%
45	Estonia	9.63	+13.9%
46	United States	9.6	+2.2%
47	Mongolia	9.47	-14.3%
48	Guadeloupe	9.43	-1.3%
49	Switzerland	9.42	+0.2%
50	New Zealand	9.4	+0.4%
51	Namibia	9.31	-2.3%
52	Armenia	9.22	-8.1%
53	Barbados	9.14	-3.4%
54	Netherlands	8.98	-0.7%
55	Sweden	8.92	-0.8%
56	Seychelles	8.89	-4.5%
57	French Polynesia	8.54	+3.1%
58	New Caledonia	8.48	-2%
59	South Korea	8.47	-3.2%
60	Mauritius	8.44	-2.9%
61	Italy	8.42	-0%
62	Saint Kitts and Nevis	8.35	-8.7%
63	Iceland	8.3	+5.2%
64	Antigua and Barbuda	8.21	-2.2%
65	Malta	8.06	-8.4%
66	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	8.04	-2%
67	Grenada	8.04	-2.9%
68	Greece	7.85	-2.6%
69	Gabon	7.71	+4.1%
70	South Africa	7.7	-1.3%
71	Thailand	7.65	+0.7%
72	Bahamas	7.64	-5.4%
73	Norway	7.47	+6.5%
74	Dominica	7.44	+0.4%
75	Chile	7.09	+2.3%
76	Argentina	6.91	+4%
77	French Guiana	6.75	-0.6%
78	Panama	6.55	-2.7%
79	Paraguay	6.45	+1.5%
80	Uruguay	6.4	+0.3%
81	Japan	6.33	-1.9%
82	Equatorial Guinea	6.11	-1.4%
83	Bosnia and Herzegovina	6.09	-1%
84	Mexico	6.04	-0.1%
85	Suriname	5.96	-2.9%
86	Philippines	5.9	-3.5%
87	Ukraine	5.79	-9%
88	North Macedonia	5.76	+0.3%
89	Cuba	5.74	-3.8%
90	Guyana	5.53	+0.3%
91	Laos	5.43	-2.6%
92	Cambodia	5.41	-10.3%
93	Puerto Rico	5.37	-2.3%
94	Eswatini	5.3	-1%
95	Dominican Republic	5.03	+4.5%
96	Belize	5.02	-7.2%
97	Trinidad and Tobago	5.02	-1%
98	Burkina Faso	4.96	-20%
99	Zimbabwe	4.91	-5.6%
100	São Tomé and Príncipe	4.9	-2.1%
101	China	4.78	-6.2%
102	India	4.68	-2.3%
103	Peru	4.66	-3.3%
104	Kazakhstan	4.62	-2.3%
105	Cyprus	4.61	-6.7%
106	Angola	4.58	-14%
107	Cape Verde	4.54	+0.2%
108	Albania	4.44	-2.3%
109	Benin	4.38	-1.2%
110	Israel	4.22	+1.3%
111	Nicaragua	4.11	-2.8%
112	Côte d’Ivoire	4.05	+3.3%
113	Republic of the Congo	4	-4.3%
114	Colombia	4	+3.7%
115	Macao	4	+4.8%
116	Jamaica	3.96	-0.3%
117	Rwanda	3.82	+5.7%
118	Lesotho	3.81	-7.4%
119	Kyrgyzstan	3.8	-8.2%
120	Bolivia	3.75	-1.7%
121	Botswana	3.75	-2.5%
122	Uganda	3.74	+2.4%
123	Costa Rica	3.65	+1.5%
124	Burundi	3.64	+0.5%
125	El Salvador	3.54	+0.6%
126	Haiti	3.51	-2.9%
127	Honduras	3.46	+1.7%
128	Saint Helena	3.29	0%
129	Hong Kong	3.1	+2.4%
130	Guinea-Bissau	3.04	-0.5%
131	Ecuador	2.95	-7.1%
132	Chad	2.94	-8.2%
133	Samoa	2.88	-3.8%
134	Ghana	2.8	-1.3%
135	Uzbekistan	2.74	-4.6%
136	North Korea	2.62	-0.2%
137	Bhutan	2.5	+8.4%
138	Azerbaijan	2.49	+5.9%
139	Venezuela	2.41	-7.4%
140	Fiji	2.41	-4.7%
141	Ethiopia	2.34	-0.1%
142	Sri Lanka	2.31	-3.4%
143	Niue	2.25	+12%
144	Guatemala	2.2	+15%
145	Singapore	2.16	+13.6%
146	Myanmar	2.05	-3.8%
147	Zambia	2.04	+6.8%
148	Kenya	2.03	+3.6%
149	Mozambique	2	+1.2%
150	Lebanon	2	-1.9%
151	Liberia	1.91	-0.3%
152	Türkiye	1.84	+1.4%
153	Nigeria	1.8	+1.7%
154	Bahrain	1.79	+0.1%
155	Maldives	1.75	-20.1%
156	Tunisia	1.72	-5.3%
157	Central African Republic	1.72	+1.2%
158	Turkmenistan	1.63	-5.3%
159	Nepal	1.51	+33.5%
160	Democratic Republic of the Congo	1.44	+0.6%
161	Mali	1.43	-0.2%
162	Eritrea	1.4	-1.2%
163	Sudan	1.4	0%
164	Tanzania	1.38	+0.9%
165	Togo	1.27	+7.1%
166	Qatar	1.16	-1.6%
167	Vanuatu	1.13	-30.2%
168	Papua New Guinea	1.13	-7.8%
169	Madagascar	0.91	-4.8%
170	Malawi	0.88	-0.5%
171	Micronesia	0.8	-1.9%
172	Oman	0.8	-6%
173	Malaysia	0.79	-3.6%
174	South Sudan	0.77	+35.1%
175	Tajikistan	0.76	-5.8%
176	United Arab Emirates	0.75	-6.3%
177	Marshall Islands	0.67	+0.7%
178	Iraq	0.66	-1.2%
179	Kiribati	0.66	-1.7%
180	Solomon Islands	0.63	-16.5%
181	Guinea	0.49	+8.3%
182	Algeria	0.45	-6.4%
183	Morocco	0.43	-2.2%
184	Gambia	0.42	-11.1%
185	Senegal	0.4	+4.1%
186	Djibouti	0.32	+5.4%
187	Jordan	0.27	-7.6%
188	Sierra Leone	0.25	+4.9%
189	Tonga	0.2	-0.3%
190	Comoros	0.14	-1.2%
191	Syria	0.13	-24.1%
192	Niger	0.1	+20.9%
193	Egypt	0.09	-8%
194	Indonesia	0.09	-8.1%
195	Pakistan	0.09	-3.7%
196	Kuwait	0.07	-7.6%
197	Afghanistan	0.05	-7.4%
198	Timor-Leste	0.04	-47.2%
199	Iran	0.02	-11.4%
200	Bangladesh	0	-1.1%
201	Libya	0	+48.6%
202	Brunei	0	n/a
202	Mauritania	0	-100%
202	Nauru	0	n/a
202	Somalia	0	n/a
202	Tuvalu	0	n/a
202	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 20.64 litres of pure alcohol in 2020, according to World Health Organization.

Which country has the lowest alcohol consumption per adult?

Yemen, with 0 litres of pure alcohol in 2020.

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