List of countries by alcohol consumption per capita

World Health Organization (WHO) data

• The report was first published by WHO in 1999 with data from 1996.
• The second report was released in 2004, published with data from 2003.
• The third report was published in 2011, with data from 2010.
• The fourth global report was published in 2014, using data from 2010.
• The fifth global report was published in 2018, with data from 2016.
• The sixth global report was published in 2024, with data from 2019.

Countries

Country	1996	2016	2019
Afghanistan|2004 Consumption by type of alcoholic beverage (2019 data) The table below for 189 countries uses 2019 data from the WHO report published in 2024. 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 by persons 15 years of age or older. Unrecorded consumption was estimated using expert judgements and surveys. The total consumption is then broken down by type of alcoholic beverage. Beer refers to malt beer, wine refers to grape wine, spirits refers to all distilled beverages such as vodka and similar products, and the column "other" refers to all other alcoholic beverages, such as rice wine, soju, sake, mead, kumis, cider, kvass, and African beers. The last two columns represent projections for total consumption for the years 2025 and 2030, which are estimated using an ARIMA regression analyses. Country Recorded consumption Unrecorded consumption Beer Wine Spirits Other 2025 projection 2030 projection Estonia