Countries by alcohol consumption per adult

U.S. Virgin Islands had the highest alcohol consumption per adult of 207 countries in 2023, at 20.1 litres of pure alcohol. Yemen had the lowest, at 0 litres of pure alcohol. The median was 4.36 litres of pure alcohol. Source: World Health Organization.

Highest20.1U.S. Virgin Islands

Lowest0Yemen

Median4.36207 countries

Top 40 countries, 2023

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	2023 litres of pure alcohol	Change on 2022
1	U.S. Virgin Islands	20.1	+1.3%
2	Romania	17.07	-0.1%
3	Turks and Caicos Islands	14.66	+7%
4	Georgia	14.39	-0.3%
5	Latvia	14.18	-2.1%
6	Portugal	13.75	+1.4%
7	Czechia	13.52	-0.8%
8	Bulgaria	13.25	+0.5%
9	Curaçao	13.23	+6.5%
10	Moldova	12.99	-0.4%
11	Cameroon	12.94	+0.9%
12	Spain	12.07	+1.5%
13	Aruba	11.96	-0.2%
14	Saint Lucia	11.83	+2.5%
15	Cayman Islands	11.7	-1.9%
16	Austria	11.6	-1.5%
17	Andorra	11.59	-0.2%
18	Poland	11.51	-3%
19	Luxembourg	11.42	-0.8%
20	Hungary	11.36	-1.6%
21	Belarus	11.29	-2.6%
22	Lithuania	11.23	-5.6%
23	Serbia	11.21	+1.4%
24	France	11.19	-1.9%
25	Bermuda	11	-0.7%
26	Croatia	10.94	+2.9%
27	Martinique	10.93	+3.1%
28	Germany	10.93	-0.3%
29	Slovenia	10.74	-1.5%
30	Vietnam	10.71	+0.4%
31	British Virgin Islands	10.69	-3.7%
32	Réunion	10.55	-0.5%
33	Australia	10.51	-3.7%
34	United Kingdom	10.44	-4.3%
35	Russia	10.41	+1.8%
36	Estonia	10.38	-3.5%
37	Brazil	10.37	+2.5%
38	Ireland	10.27	-1.6%
39	Cook Islands	10.22	-4%
40	Montenegro	10.17	-0.3%
41	Barbados	10.07	+5.6%
42	Guadeloupe	9.95	+3.3%
43	United States	9.56	-2.2%
44	Belgium	9.54	+0.2%
45	Denmark	9.53	-5%
46	Finland	9.39	-2.3%
47	Canada	9.24	-3.9%
48	Slovakia	9.07	-2.9%
49	Seychelles	9	+4.9%
50	New Zealand	8.85	-3.5%
51	Switzerland	8.76	-3.6%
52	Sweden	8.68	-0.4%
53	South Africa	8.63	+2.2%
54	Grenada	8.58	+3.8%
55	Greece	8.58	+1.7%
56	Netherlands	8.56	-3.9%
57	Namibia	8.49	-1.5%
58	Mauritius	8.46	+1.2%
59	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	8.44	+1.5%
60	Italy	8.44	-1.3%
61	Saint Kitts and Nevis	8.28	+7%
62	South Korea	8.26	-0.2%
63	Antigua and Barbuda	8.22	+0.2%
64	New Caledonia	8.19	-3.1%
65	Bahamas	8.09	+1.9%
66	Gabon	8	0%
67	Thailand	7.9	+3.1%
68	Iceland	7.71	-5.5%
69	Malta	7.65	-1.2%
70	French Polynesia	7.41	-7.7%
71	Dominica	7.34	-0.7%
72	Panama	7.2	+2.7%
73	Mongolia	7.14	-0.5%
74	Argentina	7.1	-6.5%
75	Norway	6.95	-6.7%
76	French Guiana	6.92	+1.2%
77	Paraguay	6.9	+1.9%
78	Mexico	6.69	+3.6%
79	Armenia	6.6	+0.7%
80	Chile	6.58	-5.8%
81	Bosnia and Herzegovina	6.57	+1.8%
82	Guyana	6.5	+7.6%
83	Japan	6.26	-0.2%
84	North Macedonia	6.23	+2.5%
85	Philippines	6.1	+2.6%
86	Eswatini	6.09	+5.4%
87	Suriname	6.03	+1%
88	Kazakhstan	5.96	+4.3%
89	Laos	5.92	+5%
90	Puerto Rico	5.86	+2.8%
91	Uruguay	5.84	-4.9%
92	Cuba	5.53	-0.1%
93	Zimbabwe	5.42	+6.5%
94	Equatorial Guinea	5.28	-5.9%
95	India	5.24	+3.9%
96	Dominican Republic	5.18	-0.6%
97	Belize	4.99	+2.2%
98	Trinidad and Tobago	4.98	-1.5%
99	Burkina Faso	4.94	-5%
100	Colombia	4.87	+2%
101	Botswana	4.87	+12.6%
102	Cyprus	4.86	+3.4%
103	Peru	4.78	+0.6%
104	Jamaica	4.36	+0.3%
105	São Tomé and Príncipe	4.34	-1.8%
106	Albania	4.27	+0.2%
107	Nicaragua	4.26	+1.3%
108	Lesotho	4.24	+0.8%
109	Israel	4.19	-1.6%
110	Côte d’Ivoire	4.18	-0.2%
111	Cambodia	4.16	+7.1%
112	Rwanda	4.14	+0.7%
113	Benin	4.09	-2.3%
114	Cape Verde	4.07	-3.7%
115	Uganda	4.03	-2.1%
116	Costa Rica	3.95	+0.1%
117	Ukraine	3.88	-1.4%
118	Republic of the Congo	3.88	+0.1%
119	Bolivia	3.82	+0.2%
120	Angola	3.78	-5%
121	China	3.69	-10.6%
122	El Salvador	3.63	+0.4%
123	Fiji	3.51	+19.5%
124	Honduras	3.47	-1.3%
125	Burundi	3.46	-6.2%
126	Haiti	3.46	-2.9%
127	Macao	3.36	-11.3%
128	Kyrgyzstan	3.29	-6.2%
129	Saint Helena	3.29	0%
130	Ecuador	3.21	+4.4%
131	Bhutan	3.08	+7.5%
132	Guinea-Bissau	3.08	-1.1%
133	Guatemala	3.05	+7%
134	Chad	3	+2.4%
135	Samoa	2.94	+2.8%
136	Hong Kong	2.88	-4.7%
137	North Korea	2.63	+0.2%
138	Venezuela	2.61	+1.2%
139	Ghana	2.59	-3%
140	Sri Lanka	2.49	-1.5%
141	Maldives	2.46	+18.6%
142	Ethiopia	2.27	-0.6%
143	Azerbaijan	2.25	-2%
144	Kenya	2.25	-1%
145	Türkiye	2.22	+4.5%
146	Singapore	2.18	-7.2%
147	Zambia	2.13	-0.8%
148	Uzbekistan	2.09	+1.4%
149	Vanuatu	2.09	+32.7%
150	Niue	2.09	-6.9%
151	Nigeria	2.04	+2.6%
152	Bahrain	2.01	+7.5%
153	Lebanon	1.99	-1.8%
154	Mali	1.99	+3%
155	Mozambique	1.99	-0.6%
156	Nepal	1.97	+2.5%
157	Myanmar	1.9	+1.9%
158	Central African Republic	1.83	+2.2%
159	Tunisia	1.7	+1.4%
160	Liberia	1.69	-2.1%
161	Democratic Republic of the Congo	1.6	+3.7%
162	Turkmenistan	1.52	-2.6%
163	Togo	1.5	+5.2%
164	Tanzania	1.49	+3.4%
165	Sudan	1.4	-0%
166	Eritrea	1.38	0%
167	Qatar	1.3	+3.2%
168	Oman	1.18	+17.3%
169	Malawi	1	-0.2%
170	Papua New Guinea	0.96	+3.7%
171	Malaysia	0.81	+3.3%
172	Micronesia	0.78	-0.7%
173	Madagascar	0.73	-6.6%
174	Marshall Islands	0.7	+1.4%
175	Tajikistan	0.68	-3.6%
176	United Arab Emirates	0.64	-7.9%
177	Kiribati	0.63	-1.2%
178	Iraq	0.61	-7.4%
179	Solomon Islands	0.59	+5.1%
180	Gambia	0.48	+11.2%
181	Guinea	0.47	-2.8%
182	Morocco	0.45	+2.1%
183	Algeria	0.42	-0.7%
184	South Sudan	0.41	-36.5%
185	Djibouti	0.33	-3.1%
186	Senegal	0.33	-8.9%
187	Jordan	0.28	+0.2%
188	Sierra Leone	0.24	-1.5%
189	Timor-Leste	0.2	+34.8%
190	Tonga	0.2	+0.3%
191	Comoros	0.14	-1.3%
192	Niger	0.13	-2.1%
193	Kuwait	0.12	+45.5%
194	Syria	0.11	-2.2%
195	Egypt	0.1	+8.1%
196	Indonesia	0.1	+6%
197	Pakistan	0.09	+0.6%
198	Afghanistan	0.03	-17.9%
199	Iran	0.02	-3.8%
200	Bangladesh	0	-1%
201	Libya	0	-1.3%
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 20.1 litres of pure alcohol in 2023, according to World Health Organization.

Which country has the lowest alcohol consumption per adult?

Yemen, with 0 litres of pure alcohol in 2023.

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