List of countries by alcohol consumption per capita
The World Health Organization periodically publishes The Global Status Report on Alcohol: Percentage of current drinkers among the total population (15+ years)[7] Worldwide consumption in 2019 was equal to 5.5 litres of pure alcohol consumed per person aged 15 years or older.The table below for 189 countries uses 2019 data (three-year average of 2017, 2018, and 2019) from the WHO report published in 2024.[6] The recorded consumption values were based on data from government sources, statistics from economic operators, and FAOSTAT data and estimates the amount of alcohol consumption (in litres of pure alcohol) by persons 15 years of age or older.The total consumption (sum of recorded and unrecorded) is then broken down by type of alcoholic beverage.The last two columns represent projections for total consumption (sum of recorded and unrecorded) for the years 2025 and 2030, which are estimated using an ARIMA regression analyses.