Countries by alcohol consumption per adult

U.S. Virgin Islands had the highest alcohol consumption per adult of 207 countries in 2021, at 19.9 litres of pure alcohol. Yemen had the lowest, at 0 litres of pure alcohol. The median was 4.53 litres of pure alcohol. Source: World Health Organization.

Highest19.9U.S. Virgin Islands

Lowest0Yemen

Median4.53207 countries

Top 40 countries, 2021

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	2021 litres of pure alcohol	Change on 2020
1	U.S. Virgin Islands	19.9	-3.6%
2	Romania	16.88	-0.3%
3	Latvia	14.63	-0.4%
4	Georgia	14.34	-1.6%
5	Czechia	13.7	-0.9%
6	Bulgaria	13.09	+0.5%
7	Portugal	12.86	+5.1%
8	Cameroon	12.59	+0.6%
9	Moldova	12.55	+2.4%
10	Cayman Islands	12.15	-6.2%
11	Poland	12.14	-0.9%
12	Turks and Caicos Islands	12.12	-4.6%
13	Lithuania	12.05	-0.2%
14	Austria	11.76	-0.6%
15	Belarus	11.7	+1.7%
16	Hungary	11.68	-0.1%
17	Aruba	11.58	-5.4%
18	British Virgin Islands	11.5	-6.9%
19	Curaçao	11.47	-2%
20	France	11.43	-2%
21	Luxembourg	11.39	+0.7%
22	Saint Lucia	11.31	-0%
23	Andorra	11.26	+0.2%
24	Australia	11.22	+0.7%
25	Bermuda	11.18	-2.2%
26	Spain	11.17	+2.7%
27	Germany	11.1	-0.8%
28	United Kingdom	11.06	+0.3%
29	Slovenia	11.06	-3.4%
30	Cook Islands	11.05	+2.6%
31	Serbia	10.9	-0%
32	Vietnam	10.73	+1.1%
33	Réunion	10.6	-0.4%
34	Ireland	10.55	-1.3%
35	Estonia	10.45	+8.5%
36	Denmark	10.26	+0.2%
37	Croatia	10.13	+2.1%
38	Russia	10.08	-0.2%
39	Martinique	10.01	-0.7%
40	Canada	9.95	-0.7%
41	Finland	9.86	-3%
42	Montenegro	9.81	-3.9%
43	United States	9.76	+1.6%
44	Brazil	9.74	+0.4%
45	Slovakia	9.65	-7%
46	Belgium	9.47	-2.1%
47	New Zealand	9.38	-0.2%
48	Guadeloupe	9.3	-1.4%
49	Switzerland	9.28	-1.5%
50	Barbados	9.07	-0.8%
51	Netherlands	8.97	-0.1%
52	Sweden	8.91	-0.2%
53	Namibia	8.86	-4.8%
54	Italy	8.45	+0.3%
55	New Caledonia	8.42	-0.7%
56	Mongolia	8.41	-11.2%
57	Iceland	8.4	+1.2%
58	South Korea	8.36	-1.3%
59	Seychelles	8.35	-6%
60	Mauritius	8.3	-1.7%
61	Gabon	8.05	+4.4%
62	French Polynesia	8.01	-6.2%
63	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	8	-0.5%
64	Antigua and Barbuda	7.97	-3%
65	Grenada	7.93	-1.4%
66	Greece	7.91	+0.8%
67	South Africa	7.8	+1.3%
68	Armenia	7.75	-16%
69	Thailand	7.62	-0.4%
70	Malta	7.61	-5.5%
71	Saint Kitts and Nevis	7.57	-9.2%
72	Norway	7.55	+1.1%
73	Bahamas	7.5	-1.7%
74	Dominica	7.46	+0.3%
75	Argentina	7.43	+7.6%
76	Chile	7.12	+0.4%
77	French Guiana	6.72	-0.4%
78	Paraguay	6.55	+1.6%
79	Panama	6.47	-1.2%
80	Uruguay	6.36	-0.5%
81	Japan	6.27	-1%
82	Bosnia and Herzegovina	6.21	+2%
83	Mexico	6.19	+2.6%
84	Philippines	5.85	-0.7%
85	Equatorial Guinea	5.85	-4.3%
86	North Macedonia	5.81	+1%
87	Suriname	5.73	-3.8%
88	Guyana	5.69	+3%
89	Cuba	5.52	-3.9%
90	Laos	5.49	+1%
91	Puerto Rico	5.39	+0.4%
92	Eswatini	5.36	+1.2%
93	Kazakhstan	5.23	+13.1%
94	Burkina Faso	5.19	+4.6%
95	Dominican Republic	5.13	+2%
96	Trinidad and Tobago	5	-0.3%
97	Ukraine	4.78	-17.5%
98	Zimbabwe	4.76	-3%
99	Belize	4.7	-6.5%
100	India	4.69	+0.2%
101	Cambodia	4.64	-14.3%
102	São Tomé and Príncipe	4.63	-5.5%
103	Peru	4.6	-1.3%
104	China	4.53	-5.3%
105	Cyprus	4.43	-3.8%
106	Cape Verde	4.33	-4.5%
107	Colombia	4.32	+8%
108	Benin	4.3	-1.8%
109	Albania	4.25	-4.1%
110	Israel	4.25	+0.7%
111	Côte d’Ivoire	4.17	+3%
112	Macao	4.14	+3.6%
113	Angola	4.1	-10.3%
114	Nicaragua	4.1	-0.2%
115	Jamaica	4.09	+3.1%
116	Uganda	4.03	+7.8%
117	Rwanda	3.99	+4.4%
118	Lesotho	3.96	+4.1%
119	Botswana	3.89	+3.6%
120	Costa Rica	3.86	+5.5%
121	Republic of the Congo	3.82	-4.5%
122	Bolivia	3.72	-0.9%
123	Burundi	3.71	+1.7%
124	Kyrgyzstan	3.63	-4.5%
125	Haiti	3.52	+0.4%
126	El Salvador	3.52	-0.6%
127	Honduras	3.49	+1.1%
128	Saint Helena	3.29	0%
129	Guinea-Bissau	3.12	+2.6%
130	Hong Kong	3.12	+0.7%
131	Samoa	2.9	+0.4%
132	Ecuador	2.88	-2.3%
133	Chad	2.84	-3.3%
134	Ghana	2.75	-1.9%
135	Bhutan	2.69	+7.7%
136	North Korea	2.62	-0.2%
137	Uzbekistan	2.53	-7.7%
138	Fiji	2.51	+4.4%
139	Guatemala	2.49	+13%
140	Niue	2.46	+9.1%
141	Sri Lanka	2.45	+6.2%
142	Venezuela	2.43	+0.9%
143	Singapore	2.42	+12.2%
144	Azerbaijan	2.39	-4%
145	Ethiopia	2.24	-4.1%
146	Kenya	2.13	+5%
147	Zambia	2.09	+2.5%
148	Lebanon	1.98	-1%
149	Mozambique	1.97	-1.5%
150	Türkiye	1.97	+6.8%
151	Mali	1.97	+37.2%
152	Myanmar	1.88	-8.2%
153	Nigeria	1.85	+2.5%
154	Nepal	1.8	+19.7%
155	Central African Republic	1.78	+3.4%
156	Bahrain	1.76	-1.5%
157	Liberia	1.76	-8.2%
158	Maldives	1.71	-2.6%
159	Tunisia	1.65	-4.2%
160	Turkmenistan	1.56	-4.2%
161	Democratic Republic of the Congo	1.42	-0.8%
162	Tanzania	1.4	+1.8%
163	Sudan	1.4	-0%
164	Eritrea	1.38	-1.4%
165	Togo	1.38	+8.2%
166	Qatar	1.25	+8%
167	Vanuatu	1.1	-2.7%
168	Papua New Guinea	1.04	-7.5%
169	Malawi	0.99	+12.9%
170	Madagascar	0.85	-6.9%
171	United Arab Emirates	0.81	+7.6%
172	Oman	0.81	+1%
173	Micronesia	0.79	-1.6%
174	Malaysia	0.79	-0.7%
175	South Sudan	0.76	-1.4%
176	Tajikistan	0.72	-4.8%
177	Marshall Islands	0.68	+1.2%
178	Iraq	0.66	+0.2%
179	Kiribati	0.65	-1.9%
180	Solomon Islands	0.56	-9.9%
181	Guinea	0.5	+2.3%
182	Algeria	0.43	-5.7%
183	Morocco	0.42	-2.2%
184	Gambia	0.41	-1.7%
185	Senegal	0.37	-8%
186	Djibouti	0.35	+8.9%
187	Jordan	0.26	-1.4%
188	Sierra Leone	0.24	-2.2%
189	Tonga	0.2	0%
190	Comoros	0.14	-1.8%
191	Niger	0.13	+22.8%
192	Syria	0.11	-18.7%
193	Timor-Leste	0.1	+159.6%
194	Egypt	0.09	-5.1%
195	Indonesia	0.09	-5.3%
196	Pakistan	0.08	-3.2%
197	Kuwait	0.07	-2.6%
198	Afghanistan	0.04	-15.8%
199	Iran	0.02	+0.4%
200	Bangladesh	0	-1.2%
201	Libya	0	-1.9%
202	Brunei	0	n/a
202	Mauritania	0	n/a
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 19.9 litres of pure alcohol in 2021, according to World Health Organization.

Which country has the lowest alcohol consumption per adult?

Yemen, with 0 litres of pure alcohol in 2021.

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