FACTOID # 3: Americans consume the sixth-most spirits, the eighth-most beer and the 18th-most wine. They’re also likely to view heavy drinkers as undesirable neighbors.
 
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Phil ladd
26th July 2012
I cant belive Ireland is third!
Vijay Srini
22nd July 2012
In India, alcoholism is in two forms. One is when people want to chill out after hard days work or during the weekends. Another worst form of alcoholism is to consume alcohol merely to go home, and thrash their wife/children and cause trouble. This form of alcoholism is more prominent among poor people. Yes, the people who dont have money to even buy two square meals, and they spend money on buying cheap alcohol. Even if their wife/children are starving OR even if the children dont go to school for lack of school fees or uniform or books, they dont hesitate to squander money to drink liquor and cause trouble.

I suppose that such type of alcoholism exists more only in India and other third-world countries and in Europe or USA, it is negligible.
EinRand
12th April 2012
10 litres per year of pure ethanol /person - translated to glasses of wine per day in America:

one glass of wine (150 mL) is equivalent to one beer or one shot of spirits?

If wine is averaged to %10 alcohol, then 10 L ethanol = 100 L of wine /year /capita

100 L / 150 mL (a glass) = 667 glasses of wine /year

667 / 365 d/year = 1.8 glasses per day per person.

However, half the population is either too young or 'claims' to be 'tea totalers', so:

We are talking 4 glasses per day for just those who drink?

From an ex alcoholic before AVRT, electrolyte and neurotransmitter replacement, who binge drank 6 glasses /day

this sounds in the 'ball park'. Corrections and or suggestions? Perhaps the per capita is limited to those over 21?

EinRand@cfl.rr.com Thanks.
Elemjay
18th November 2011
@Winelover: Your math fails. A typical bottle of wine contains 750 ml. That makes 1% of the bottle 7,5 ml. If you have a 12% alcohol content, you then have to multiply this by 12 (which you obviously failed/neglected to do).
A 750 ml bottle of wine with 12% alcohol content contains 90 ml of pure alcohol.
14800/90 = 164,4 bottles of wine (12%) per person in a year. 164,4/52 = 3,16 bottles per week which gives 3,16/7 = 0,45 bottle per day.
In other words, you and your partner share a bottle of wine every day. Yes, it's a lot (in most peoples standards anyway) but not unrealistic at all - and pretty far from your absurd "5 bottles a day" statement.
Smegma
28th September 2011
Russia was being kind to not participate, giving us hope.
Numa
20th September 2011
Wanna know if is there anyone who has any idea about how to launch a new product
Chris
2nd August 2011
Hi, I am trying to find some as recent as possible figures regarding total alcohol sales for different countries, especially Japan, US and UK. In other terms, total spend on alcohol as % of GDP for different countries?
Does anyone have any idea where I can find this data. Any help much appreciated. Thanks.
Tristan Egarr
1st August 2011
"Luxembourg sells the most alcohol in Europe per capita. However, the large proportion of alcohol purchase by customers from neighbouring countries contributes to the statistically high level of alcohol sales per capita; this level of alcohol sales is thus not representative of the actual alcohol consumption of the Luxembourg population."

In terms of problematic "binge" drinking, the following study puts Ireland on top with a third of its people binging, with Finland, Britain and Denmark also high (each are about 1/4 bingers). http://www.finfacts.com/irishfinancenews/article_10009454.shtml
Aaron
9th July 2011
This is PER YEARLY consumption of PURE ALCOHOL.

Edward M. Rizzo
27th June 2011
I am having trouble accessing your archives for alcohol consumption - litres per capita for 1960, 70, 80, 90, 2000.
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najam hasan
24th March 2011
What percentage of people drink alcohol in the world. Please include all countries or population.
eu
19th January 2011
What about moldova?
bora akgül
18th January 2011
per month per day per what?
sbas
1st January 2011
interesting data but unbelievable
des
16th December 2010
@Wine Lover, at 14% alc/vol, a 750ml bottle of wine has 105ml of pure alcohol, bringing it to about 0.4 bottles of wine per day, which is a lot but not unrealistic.

Interesting that Russia and Australia are actually not that high despite their respective reputations
des
16th December 2010
Wine Lover, dude, where did you get those 7.5 ml bottles of wine, from a dollhouse?
Wine Lover
14th December 2010
France has a 14.8 liter per capita alcohol consumption ... that equals 14,800 ml. The typical bottle of wine has 7.5 ml of pure ethanol in it (at 12% alcohol). 14,800 ml divided by 7.5 ml equals 1,973 bottles of wine per person per year. That's 5 bottles of wine per person per day. That is not even believable.
Maymay
22nd November 2010
to Haha,
no it's 18 litres, i have a report by my hand now, Ministry of Public Health of Russia

to Vasya,
yes it did and nothing to be proud of,it's a national disaster
Jon
18th November 2010
So does the data measure litres of pure alcohol or litres of drinks that contain alcohol? That would make a BIG difference.
Devashri
17th November 2010
what is wine consumption in india per capita?
dawnrunner
2nd November 2010
xxYxx - this statistics shows alcohol consumption in pure spirits
drunkensenator
15th October 2010
These numbers are so vague, besides Russia, China and India, where are Chile, Argentina and Brasil...all producers of wine. what about the African countries and Oceanic countries big producers and consumers of beer.
We already know about the UK and Ireland but the total amount is divided into the whole population that's why Luxenbourg appears as one of the highest and the US one of the med-lowest.....the fact is.. everyone likes to get drunk because everyone is frustrated and need to escape from reality
hclarke
27th September 2010
what does per capita mean, really need to know ?
xxYxx
19th September 2010
YES! but in Russia or Poland etc. they drink 8.1 litres per capita of VODKA and in Luxemburd or Fance they drink vine or beer :)
simple guy
30th July 2010
Really where is Russia? I once heard a russian said Cameroon was the first... hahaha, funny.
Hall
2nd July 2010
well this is slightly jaded, because the american drinking age is 21, while in europe it is 18, and in other countries, there is no drinking age. its hard to test all the underage drinking that goes on in america and other countries too. and like andre said, the percentages are varied.
Rijin
16th June 2010
i would like to know the status of INDIA
Kate
14th June 2010
Russia is not OECD members. Look. This is 'OECD Health Data 2005'!!
mariah jane
12th May 2010
wow people like yal is what messes up our world thinking it is so cool that drinking amount of these countries are okay but actuuly it doesnt make you think about the amount of people that have all been killed or have suffered in some way by drinkin maybe yal should think about that......and the worse part is, is that im stiil in high school and seem to know better than yal do & to andre at least you have sence to think about reall things
Carlos Eduardo Lopez Palacios
15th April 2010
Is this a monthy consumption or what?
Haha
27th March 2010
Boris, actually Russia is at 10 litres
better straighten up your sources
Dilip Parekh
25th March 2010
I am interested in finding out statistics about Alcohol Consumption of India compared to Other countries
Dilip Parekh
25th March 2010
I am trying to find out comparative alcohole consumption statistics betwwen India and othe rmajor countries
Boris
24th March 2010
Russia is currently at 18 litres
Segey
22nd March 2010
I am Russian and live in US half of my life,but sometimes go back to Russia.Well,Russians drink mostly vodka,but it is doesn't mean they are most "Drunk Nation "in a World.Problem is -MEDIA and Propaganda show this way.Don't believe anything what you see made by Hollywood in a movie.I see here so many drunk "red necks " as I never saw any where combine.Peace.
MES
11th March 2010
ouch, where is RUSSYA?...
Vasya
8th March 2010
I think Russia played no contest at all ;)
ila bhatnagar
24th February 2010
what about india
Andre´
13th February 2010
Unlike the Seattle comment, *this* is the only reasonable, adequate, and sensible way to analyse alcohol consumption.
Portuguese drink wine, but the % alcohol differs from the Italian ones.
Czechs drink beer, but the % alcohol differs from the Belgian ones.
Even with vodka, there are 38% and 80%! So shut up and quit the booze!
Stoltz
10th February 2010
+1 to Giacomo. Where is Russia in graph?
Giacomo Gasperini
5th February 2010
What about russia?
alics
19th January 2010
who would comment on this?
Robin (Finland)
1st April 2009
Surely it CAN'T be litres of pure alcohol?!?! One litre of pure alcohol is aproximately = 2 litres of spirits (whisky, vodka etc) So that would mean that every single person in Luxemborg consumes around 31 Litres of spirits a year. That's a little less than one bottle of vodka a week for every man woman and child in the country, or four bottles a week for the average family!!!!
ZUma (Canada)
21st March 2009
I agree with Flux.

but on a lighter note .. we all know that Americans drink piss, so they don't really count!
drinkeepoo (Seattle)
4th March 2009
This is a thoroughly useless stat - it needs to be measured by alcohol content, not total volume. Czechs drink beer, Russians drink vodka - a liter does not = a liter.
Ken (San Francisco)
1st March 2009
Seems like Europe has the vast majority of nations in the top 30. Asia and Africa are out of the picture, and Russia's famed alcohol consumption doesn't make the list either. Is this just because statistics are more readily available in Europe and America? Seems odd.
vanessa (new zealand)
17th June 2006
Luxembourg drink a lot of alcohol.. i mean they even beat France and there known to drink wine all the time.. GO LUXEMBOURG!!

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