# EU countries by alcohol consumption per adult, 2024

All 27 values come from World Health Organization for 2024, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `alcohol_consumption_per_capita`
- Unit: litres of pure alcohol
- Definition: 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.
- Source: World Health Organization, Total alcohol per capita (>= 15 years of age) consumption (litres of pure alcohol) (SA_0000001688) (https://data.who.int/indicators/i/EF38E6A/EE6F72A)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/world-health-organization
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: 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.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/alcohol-consumption-per-adult/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | litres of pure alcohol |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Romania | 17.07 |
| 2 | Latvia | 14.18 |
| 3 | Portugal | 13.75 |
| 4 | Czechia | 13.52 |
| 5 | Bulgaria | 13.25 |
| 6 | Spain | 12.07 |
| 7 | Austria | 11.6 |
| 8 | Poland | 11.51 |
| 9 | Luxembourg | 11.42 |
| 10 | Hungary | 11.36 |
| 11 | Lithuania | 11.23 |
| 12 | France | 11.19 |
| 13 | Croatia | 10.94 |
| 14 | Germany | 10.93 |
| 15 | Slovenia | 10.74 |
| 16 | Estonia | 10.38 |
| 17 | Ireland | 10.27 |
| 18 | Belgium | 9.54 |
| 19 | Denmark | 9.53 |
| 20 | Finland | 9.39 |
| 21 | Slovakia | 9.07 |
| 22 | Sweden | 8.68 |
| 23 | Greece | 8.58 |
| 24 | Netherlands | 8.56 |
| 25 | Italy | 8.44 |
| 26 | Malta | 7.65 |
| 27 | Cyprus | 4.86 |