Datasets Use · not part of the score
Alcohol drunk per person
World Health Organization, via Our World in Data · 2000 to 2022
Alcohol is the legal drug every cannabis law is measured against. The World Health Organization estimates how many litres of pure alcohol each person aged 15 or over drinks in a year, sold legally or not.[1] In 2020 Romania, Georgia and Latvia drank the most, 13 to 17 litres; in Saudi Arabia, Somalia and Mauritania almost none. The median country drinks about 4 litres.
The alcohol chart sets drinking beside each country’s cannabis score, and shows where one drug is part of daily life while the other is a crime, or the other way round. Where cannabis is drunk at a festival, the atlas tells of it, as in bhang at Holi; for the most common cannabis figure, see cannabis use.
- Data
- full data (CSV)
- File here
- owid-alcohol-consumption.csv
- of 220 places covered
- 187
- years in the file
- 2000–2020
- the median country
- 4.30
- places with several years
- 187
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Lowest · Alcohol drunk per person
- Somalia0.002020
- Saudi Arabia0.002020
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Country by country
Each place's latest figure, as on its profile. Select a heading to sort.
| Further figures | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| AfghanistanAsia | 0.01litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| AlbaniaEurope | 4.47litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| AlgeriaAfrica | 0.54litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| AndorraEurope | 9.68litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| AngolaAfrica | 4.13litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| Antigua and BarbudaNorth America | 6.66litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| ArgentinaSouth America | 8.05litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| ArmeniaAsia | 4.28litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| AustraliaOceania | 10.29litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| AustriaEurope | 11.51litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| AzerbaijanAsia | 2.49litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| BahamasNorth America | 3.65litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| BahrainAsia | 1.25litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| BangladeshAsia | 0.09litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| BarbadosNorth America | 8.22litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| BelarusEurope | 11.63litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| BelgiumEurope | 9.43litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| BelizeNorth America | 3.67litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| BeninAfrica | 8.83litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| BhutanAsia | 0.18litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| BoliviaSouth America | 3.59litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| Bosnia and HerzegovinaEurope | 5.87litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| BotswanaAfrica | 7.27litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| BrazilSouth America | 7.70litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| BruneiAsia | 0.51litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| BulgariaEurope | 11.62litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| Burkina FasoAfrica | 11.27litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| BurundiAfrica | 4.16litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| Cabo VerdeAfrica | 6.01litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| CambodiaAsia | 6.67litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| CameroonAfrica | 9.60litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| CanadaNorth America | 9.89litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| Central African RepublicAfrica | 1.75litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| ChadAfrica | 2.91litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| ChileSouth America | 7.56litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| ChinaAsia | 4.58litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| ColombiaSouth America | 4.24litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| ComorosAfrica | 0.23litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| CongoAfrica | 6.05litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| Costa RicaNorth America | 3.40litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| Côte d'IvoireAfrica | 2.85litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| CroatiaEurope | 7.65litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| CubaNorth America | 5.38litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| CyprusEurope | 6.36litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| CzechiaEurope | 11.99litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| DenmarkEurope | 9.49litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| DjiboutiAfrica | 0.38litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| DominicaNorth America | 5.02litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| Dominican RepublicNorth America | 6.50litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| DR CongoAfrica | 1.92litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| EcuadorSouth America | 2.54litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| EgyptAfrica | 0.13litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| El SalvadorNorth America | 3.15litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| Equatorial GuineaAfrica | 6.56litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| EritreaAfrica | 1.07litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| EstoniaEurope | 10.68litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| EswatiniAfrica | 6.79litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| EthiopiaAfrica | 3.06litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| FijiOceania | 3.58litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| FinlandEurope | 9.08litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| FranceEurope | 10.32litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| GabonAfrica | 8.14litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| GambiaAfrica | 0.61litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| GeorgiaAsia | 14.41litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| GermanyEurope | 11.84litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| GhanaAfrica | 4.26litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| GreeceEurope | 5.81litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| GrenadaNorth America | 7.33litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| GuatemalaNorth America | 1.54litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| GuineaAfrica | 0.52litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| Guinea-BissauAfrica | 3.73litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| GuyanaSouth America | 5.04litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| HaitiNorth America | 3.11litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| HondurasNorth America | 3.08litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| HungaryEurope | 9.93litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| IcelandEurope | 7.94litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| IndiaAsia | 4.10litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| IndonesiaAsia | 0.07litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| IranAsia | 0.51litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| IraqAsia | 0.24litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| IrelandEurope | 10.77litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| IsraelAsia | 2.84litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| ItalyEurope | 6.97litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| JamaicaNorth America | 3.10litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| JapanAsia | 6.38litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| JordanAsia | 0.23litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| KazakhstanAsia | 4.52litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| KenyaAfrica | 2.47litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| KiribatiOceania | 0.72litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| KuwaitAsia | 0.00litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| KyrgyzstanAsia | 3.63litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| LaosAsia | 10.82litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| LatviaEurope | 12.87litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| LebanonAsia | 1.26litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| LesothoAfrica | 4.30litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| LiberiaAfrica | 2.86litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| LibyaAfrica | 0.01litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| LithuaniaEurope | 12.10litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| LuxembourgEurope | 10.82litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| MadagascarAfrica | 0.99litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| MalawiAfrica | 3.61litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| MalaysiaAsia | 0.74litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| MaldivesAsia | 1.49litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| MaliAfrica | 5.32litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| MaltaEurope | 7.11litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| MauritaniaAfrica | 0.00litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| MauritiusAfrica | 6.86litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| MexicoNorth America | 4.79litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| MicronesiaOceania | 2.02litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| MoldovaEurope | 11.08litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| MongoliaAsia | 7.68litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| MontenegroEurope | 10.34litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2019 | 2019 |
| MoroccoAfrica | 0.50litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| MozambiqueAfrica | 1.89litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| MyanmarAsia | 1.93litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| NamibiaAfrica | 5.05litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| NauruOceania | 2.79litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| NepalAsia | 1.06litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| NetherlandsEurope | 8.71litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| New ZealandOceania | 10.02litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| NicaraguaNorth America | 3.67litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| NigerAfrica | 0.13litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| NigeriaAfrica | 3.78litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| North KoreaAsia | 3.87litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| North MacedoniaEurope | 4.36litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| NorwayEurope | 7.38litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| OmanAsia | 0.51litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| PakistanAsia | 0.08litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| PanamaNorth America | 4.66litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| Papua New GuineaOceania | 1.13litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| ParaguaySouth America | 5.62litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| PeruSouth America | 6.45litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| PhilippinesAsia | 5.66litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| PolandEurope | 11.66litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| PortugalEurope | 8.88litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| QatarAsia | 1.05litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| RomaniaEurope | 16.80litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| RussiaEurope | 10.53litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| RwandaAfrica | 2.87litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| Saint Kitts and NevisNorth America | 4.69litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| Saint LuciaNorth America | 9.28litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesNorth America | 5.62litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| SamoaOceania | 2.35litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| São Tomé and PríncipeAfrica | 4.79litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| Saudi ArabiaAsia | 0.00litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| SenegalAfrica | 0.38litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| SerbiaEurope | 7.89litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2019 | 2019 |
| SeychellesAfrica | 10.19litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| Sierra LeoneAfrica | 0.29litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| SingaporeAsia | 1.81litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| SlovakiaEurope | 10.67litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| SloveniaEurope | 10.41litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| Solomon IslandsOceania | 1.45litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| SomaliaAfrica | 0.00litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| South AfricaAfrica | 7.13litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| South KoreaAsia | 7.79litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| SpainEurope | 9.16litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| Sri LankaAsia | 2.91litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| SudanAfrica | 0.01litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| SurinameSouth America | 5.93litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| SwedenEurope | 9.57litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| SwitzerlandEurope | 10.07litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| SyriaAsia | 0.09litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| TajikistanAsia | 0.74litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| TanzaniaAfrica | 10.95litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| ThailandAsia | 7.99litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| Timor-LesteAsia | 0.17litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| TogoAfrica | 1.44litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| TongaOceania | 0.36litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| Trinidad and TobagoNorth America | 6.03litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| TunisiaAfrica | 1.71litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| TürkiyeAsia | 1.69litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| TurkmenistanAsia | 2.62litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| TuvaluOceania | 1.26litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| UgandaAfrica | 11.30litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| UkraineEurope | 9.24litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| United Arab EmiratesAsia | 2.08litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| United KingdomEurope | 10.73litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| United StatesNorth America | 9.90litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| UruguaySouth America | 5.61litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| UzbekistanAsia | 2.10litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| VanuatuOceania | 2.04litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| VenezuelaSouth America | 1.99litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| VietnamAsia | 8.04litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| YemenAsia | 0.04litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| ZambiaAfrica | 3.62litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
| ZimbabweAfrica | 2.67litres of pure alcohol a year | per person aged 15 or over · 2020 | 2020 |
What is counted, and how the file was made
The WHO's estimate of the litres of pure alcohol drunk in a year per person aged 15 or over, recorded sales and unrecorded alcohol together. A legal drug, for comparison with an illegal one.
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