Top 60 Countries by Alcohol Consumption Across.
The annual global average alcohol consumption is 6.4 liters per person older than 15. To account for the differences in alcohol content of different alcoholic drinks (e.g. beer, wine, spirits), this is reported in liters of pure alcohol per year.
To make the 6.4 liters average more understandable we can express it in bottles of wine. Wine contains around 12% of pure alcohol per volume so that one liter of wine contains 0.12 liters of pure alcohol. The global average of 6.4 liters of pure alcohol per person per year, therefore, equals 53 bottles of wine per person older than 15 (6.4l / 0.12l). Or to make it more memorable, around 1 liter of wine per week.
Average per capita alcohol consumption varies widely across the world.
We see large geographical differences: Alcohol consumption across North Africa and the Middle East is particularly low — in many countries, close to zero. At the upper end of the scale, alcohol intake across Europe is highest at around 15 liters per person per year in the Czech Republic, Lithuania, and Moldova. This equals around two bottles of wine per person per week.
Only slightly behind the Eastern European countries are Western European countries – including Germany, France, Portugal, Ireland, and Belgium – at around 12 to 14 liters. Outside of Europe, the only other country in this category is Nigeria.