List_of_countries_by_alcohol_consumption

List of countries by alcohol consumption per capita

List of countries by alcohol consumption per capita

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This is a list of countries by alcohol consumption measured in equivalent litres of pure alcohol (ethanol) consumed per capita per year.

A standard drink is about 17 milliliters of ethanol, putting one liter at about 59 drinks.

World Health Organization (WHO) data

The World Health Organization periodically publishes The Global Status Report on Alcohol:

  • The report was first published by WHO in 1999 with data from 1996.[1]
  • The second report was released in 2004, published with data from 2003.[2]
  • The third report was published in 2011, with data from 2010.[3]
  • The fourth global report was published in 2014, using data from 2010.[4]
  • The fifth global report was published in 2018, with data from 2016.[5]

Worldwide

Percentage of current drinkers among the total population (15+ years)[6]

Countries

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  1. Estimates for Estonia are from 1995.
  2. Officially named Swaziland until April 2018

Comprehensive list with data from 2016

The table below for 189 countries uses 2016 data from the WHO report published in 2018. The methodology used by the WHO calculated use by persons 15 years of age or older. All data in columns refer to year 2016. The column "recorded" refers to the average recorded consumption for the period 2010. Unrecorded consumption (homebrew, moonshine, smuggled alcohol, surrogate alcohol etc.) was calculated using expert judgements and surveys. Total is the sum of the recorded and unrecorded consumption. The next four columns are a breakdown of the recorded alcohol consumption by type. Beer refers to malt beer, wine refers to grape wine, spirits refers to all distilled beverages such as vodka and similar products, and the column "other" refers to all other alcoholic beverages, such as rice wine, soju, sake, mead, kumis, cider, kvass, and African beers (kumi kumi, kwete, banana beer, millet beer, umqombothi etc.). Worldwide consumption in 2016 was equal to 6.4 litres of pure alcohol consumed per person aged 15 years or older.

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See also

References

  1. [1]
    "WHO - Global Status Report On Alcohol" (PDF). who.int. 1999.
  2. [2]
    "WHO - Global Status Report On Alcohol 2004" (PDF). who.int. 2004.
  3. [3]
    "WHO - Global Status Report On Alcohol 2011". who.int. 2011.
  4. [4]
    "WHO - Global Status Report On Alcohol 2014" (PDF). who.int. 2014.
  5. [5]
    "WHO - Global Status Report On Alcohol 2018" (PDF). who.int. 2018.
  6. [6]
    "WHO Global status report on alcohol and health 2018" (PDF). who.int. p. 44. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  7. [7]
    "WHO - Global Status Report On Alcohol" (PDF). who.int. 1999. pp. 10–13.
  8. [8]
    "WHO - Global status report on alcohol and health 2018" (PDF). who.int. 2018. pp. 341–348.
  9. [9]
    "WHO Global status report on alcohol and health 2018" (PDF). who.int. World Health Organization. pp. 341–356.
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