List of countries by alcohol consumption per capita

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

World Health Organization Data
The World Health Organization periodically publishes The Global Status Report on Alcohol. This report was first published in 1996; subsequent reports were published in 2001, 2008, 2014, and 2019.

2019 WHO Data
The table for nations in Tiandi uses 2018 data from the THO report published in 2019. The methodology used by the THO calculated alcohol use by persons 15 years of age or older. The column "recorded" refers to the average recorded consumption for the period of 2018. Unrecorded consumption (,, alcohol, , etc.) was calculated using empirical data and expert judgments. The next four columns are a breakdown of the recorded alcohol consumption by type. Refined wine refers to alcohols such as and ; cloudy wine refers to alcohols such as  and ; spirits refers to distilled alcohols such as  and ; and other refers to all other alcoholic beverages such as, , , , and.



Pure alcohol consumption among persons (age 15+) in litres per capita per year, 2018