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DEFINITION:
Average liters of pure alcohol consumed annually in the form of “recorded alcohol” by the population above 14 years of age. The consumption of tourists is excluded for countries with more tourists per year than resident population. “Recorded alcohol” is taxed and within governmental control. It excludes alcohol that is homemade (legally or illegally), smuggled or obtained through cross-border shopping.
CONTENTS
# | COUNTRY | AMOUNT | DATE | GRAPH |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Czech Republic | 14.97 | 2005 | |
2 | Andorra | 14.08 | 2005 | |
3 | Estonia | 13.77 | 2005 | |
4 | Ireland | 13.39 | 2005 | |
5 | France | 13.3 | 2005 | |
6 | Croatia | 12.61 | 2005 | |
7 | Austria | 12.6 | 2005 | |
8 | Portugal | 12.45 | 2005 | |
9 | Hungary | 12.27 | 2005 | |
10 | Slovenia | 12.19 | 2005 | |
11 | Lithuania | 12.03 | 2005 | |
12 | Luxembourg | 12.01 | 2005 | |
13 | Germany | 11.81 | 2005 | |
14 | South Korea | 11.8 | 2005 | |
15 | United Kingdom | 11.67 | 2005 | |
16 | Denmark | 11.37 | 2005 | |
17 | Saint Lucia | 11.35 | 2005 | |
18 | Romania | 11.3 | 2005 | |
19 | Bulgaria | 11.24 | 2005 | |
20 | Belarus | 11.22 | 2005 | |
21 | Uganda | 10.93 | 2005 | |
22 | Switzerland | 10.56 | 2005 | |
23 | Slovakia | 10.33 | 2005 | |
24 | Spain | 10.22 | 2005 | |
25 | Armenia | 10.05 | 2005 | |
26 | Russia | 10 | 2005 | |
27 | Serbia | 9.97 | 2005 | |
28 | Australia | 9.89 | 2005 | |
29 | Grenada | 9.85 | 2005 | |
30 | Nigeria | 9.78 | 2005 | |
31 | Belgium | 9.77 | 2005 | |
32 | Finland | 9.72 | 2005 | |
33 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 9.63 | 2005 | |
34 | Seychelles | 9.59 | 2005 | |
=35 | Netherlands | 9.55 | 2005 | |
=35 | Poland | 9.55 | 2005 | |
37 | Latvia | 9.5 | 2005 | |
38 | New Zealand | 9.12 | 2005 | |
39 | Palau | 9.1 | 2005 | |
40 | Greece | 8.95 | 2005 | |
41 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 8.93 | 2005 | |
42 | Niue | 8.85 | 2005 | |
43 | United States | 8.44 | 2005 | |
44 | Italy | 8.33 | 2005 | |
45 | Cyprus | 8.26 | 2005 | |
46 | Moldova | 8.22 | 2005 | |
47 | The Bahamas | 8.16 | 2005 | |
48 | Ukraine | 8.1 | 2005 | |
49 | Argentina | 8 | 2005 | |
50 | Japan | 7.83 | 2005 | |
51 | Canada | 7.77 | 2005 | |
52 | Guyana | 7.5 | 2005 | |
53 | Dominica | 7.34 | 2005 | |
54 | Gabon | 7.32 | 2005 | |
55 | Azerbaijan | 7.3 | 2005 | |
56 | Nepal | 7.2 | 2005 | |
57 | South Africa | 6.96 | 2005 | |
58 | Venezuela | 6.83 | 2005 | |
59 | Rwanda | 6.8 | 2005 | |
60 | Antigua and Barbuda | 6.76 | 2005 | |
61 | Sierra Leone | 6.72 | 2005 | |
62 | Sweden | 6.7 | 2005 | |
63 | Chile | 6.55 | 2005 | |
64 | Burundi | 6.47 | 2005 | |
65 | Barbados | 6.41 | 2005 | |
66 | Paraguay | 6.38 | 2005 | |
67 | Thailand | 6.37 | 2005 | |
68 | Norway | 6.21 | 2005 | |
69 | Brazil | 6.16 | 2005 | |
70 | Uruguay | 6.14 | 2005 | |
71 | Kazakhstan | 6.06 | 2005 | |
72 | Haiti | 5.99 | 2005 | |
73 | Iceland | 5.91 | 2005 | |
74 | Namibia | 5.87 | 2005 | |
75 | Panama | 5.85 | 2005 | |
76 | Trinidad and Tobago | 5.78 | 2005 | |
77 | Dominican Republic | 5.76 | 2005 | |
78 | Laos | 5.73 | 2005 | |
79 | Swaziland | 5.7 | 2005 | |
80 | Republic of Macedonia | 5.61 | 2005 | |
81 | Puerto Rico | 5.47 | 2005 | |
82 | Equatorial Guinea | 5.31 | 2005 | |
83 | Suriname | 5.19 | 2005 | |
84 | Belize | 5.07 | 2005 | |
85 | Mexico | 5.02 | 2005 | |
86 | Cameroon | 4.97 | 2005 | |
87 | Botswana | 4.96 | 2005 | |
88 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 4.94 | 2005 | |
89 | Tanzania | 4.75 | 2005 | |
90 | Albania | 4.58 | 2005 | |
91 | Federated States of Micronesia | 4.5 | 2005 | |
=92 | Burkina Faso | 4.48 | 2005 | |
=92 | Cote d'Ivoire | 4.48 | 2005 | |
94 | Cuba | 4.41 | 2005 | |
95 | Philippines | 4.38 | 2005 | |
96 | China | 4.21 | 2005 | |
97 | Colombia | 4.17 | 2005 | |
98 | Costa Rica | 4.15 | 2005 | |
99 | Zimbabwe | 4.08 | 2005 | |
100 | Ecuador | 4.01 | 2005 | |
101 | Georgia | 3.9 | 2005 | |
102 | Malta | 3.85 | 2005 | |
=103 | Samoa | 3.8 | 2005 | |
=103 | Angola | 3.8 | 2005 | |
105 | Nicaragua | 3.77 | 2005 | |
106 | Bahrain | 3.56 | 2005 | |
107 | Jamaica | 3.5 | 2005 | |
108 | Liberia | 3.47 | 2005 | |
109 | Tonga | 3.28 | 2005 | |
110 | Cook Islands | 3.2 | 2005 | |
111 | Kyrgyzstan | 3.19 | 2005 | |
112 | Honduras | 3.08 | 2005 | |
113 | Peru | 2.9 | 2005 | |
114 | Mauritius | 2.72 | 2005 | |
115 | Bolivia | 2.62 | 2005 | |
116 | El Salvador | 2.61 | 2005 | |
117 | Guinea-Bissau | 2.58 | 2005 | |
118 | Guatemala | 2.43 | 2005 | |
119 | Gambia | 2.4 | 2005 | |
120 | Israel | 2.39 | 2005 | |
121 | Zambia | 2.35 | 2005 | |
=122 | Turkmenistan | 2.33 | 2005 | |
=122 | Nauru | 2.33 | 2005 | |
124 | Cape Verde | 2.06 | 2005 | |
125 | Republic of the Congo | 2.04 | 2005 | |
126 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 1.97 | 2005 | |
127 | Tuvalu | 1.94 | 2005 | |
128 | Lesotho | 1.9 | 2005 | |
129 | Cambodia | 1.77 | 2005 | |
130 | Brunei | 1.76 | 2005 | |
131 | Lebanon | 1.73 | 2005 | |
132 | Kiribati | 1.71 | 2005 | |
133 | Central African Republic | 1.65 | 2005 | |
=134 | Uzbekistan | 1.64 | 2005 | |
=134 | Kenya | 1.64 | 2005 | |
=136 | Sudan | 1.56 | 2005 | |
=136 | Mozambique | 1.56 | 2005 | |
138 | Papua New Guinea | 1.49 | 2005 | |
139 | Ghana | 1.47 | 2005 | |
140 | Fiji | 1.43 | 2005 | |
=141 | Turkey | 1.37 | 2005 | |
=141 | Djibouti | 1.37 | 2005 | |
=143 | Malawi | 1.24 | 2005 | |
=143 | Mongolia | 1.24 | 2005 | |
145 | Solomon Islands | 1.16 | 2005 | |
146 | Benin | 1.15 | 2005 | |
147 | Syria | 1.13 | 2005 | |
148 | Tunisia | 1.09 | 2005 | |
149 | Vietnam | 1.07 | 2005 | |
150 | Togo | 0.99 | 2005 | |
151 | Eritrea | 0.94 | 2005 | |
152 | Qatar | 0.85 | 2005 | |
153 | Madagascar | 0.78 | 2005 | |
154 | Algeria | 0.66 | 2005 | |
155 | Oman | 0.64 | 2005 | |
=156 | India | 0.55 | 2005 | |
=156 | Singapore | 0.55 | 2005 | |
158 | Mali | 0.54 | 2005 | |
159 | Ethiopia | 0.52 | 2005 | |
160 | Malaysia | 0.5 | 2005 | |
161 | Morocco | 0.46 | 2005 | |
162 | Vanuatu | 0.43 | 2005 | |
163 | Jordan | 0.41 | 2005 | |
164 | Tajikistan | 0.39 | 2005 | |
165 | Chad | 0.38 | 2005 | |
166 | East Timor | 0.36 | 2005 | |
167 | Sri Lanka | 0.35 | 2005 | |
168 | United Arab Emirates | 0.34 | 2005 | |
169 | Senegal | 0.3 | 2005 | |
170 | Egypt | 0.27 | 2005 | |
=171 | Guinea | 0.26 | 2005 | |
=171 | Comoros | 0.26 | 2005 | |
173 | Bhutan | 0.22 | 2005 | |
174 | Iraq | 0.2 | 2005 | |
175 | Burma | 0.11 | 2005 | |
176 | Niger | 0.09 | 2005 | |
177 | Indonesia | 0.06 | 2005 | |
178 | Saudi Arabia | 0.05 | 2005 | |
179 | Iran | 0.02 | 2005 | |
=180 | Libya | 0.01 | 2005 | |
=180 | Mauritania | 0.01 | 2005 | |
=180 | Pakistan | 0.01 | 2005 | |
=183 | Afghanistan | 0.0 | 2005 | |
=183 | Bangladesh | 0.0 | 2005 | |
=183 | Yemen | 0.0 | 2005 | |
=183 | Somalia | 0.0 | 2005 | |
=183 | Kuwait | 0.0 | 2005 |