Total alcohol consumption per capita (ages 15+)
- World median
- 4.3
- across 200 countries, 2024
- Latest observation
- 2024
- Source updated
- 13 Jul 2026
- CountryAtlas refreshed
- 11 Sep 2026
- Snapshot 20260911T072322Z
World map
One value per country for the selected year. Hatched = no data.
No data available
Trend
Aggregate across the countries of a group, year by year. Computed by CountryAtlas from country values — no published aggregate is used.
Not enough countries to aggregate this indicator for World.
Highest and lowest
The five leaders and the five trailing countries, 2024.
Highest 5
- 20.1
- 17.1
- 14.7
- 14.4
- 14.2
Source: WHO Global Health Observatory — GHO · SA_0000001688
Lowest 5
- 196Yemen0
- 197Mauritania0
- 198Somalia0
- 199Brunei0
- 200Nauru0
Source: WHO Global Health Observatory — GHO · SA_0000001688
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Pick up to five countries. Defaults to the three largest economies with data.
No series for the selected countries.
Definition
- Definition
- Unit
- litres of pure alcohol per year (L)
- Frequency
- Annual
- Aggregation
- none · No direction
- Valid range
- 0 – 30
Sources & provenance
Every value on this page comes from one of these series, chosen per country by priority.
- Priority #1Open at source187 countries · 3,891 obs. · → 2020 · CC BY 4.0
Total alcohol per capita consumption is defined as the total (sum of recorded and unrecorded alcohol) amount of alcohol consumed per person (15 years of age or older) over a calendar year, in litres of pure alcohol, adjusted for tourist consumption. Source: Global Health Observatory Data Repository, World Health Organization (WHO), uri: https://www.who.int/data/gho
- Priority #2Open at source200 countries · 5,000 obs. · → 2024 · CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO
Alcohol, total per capita (15+) consumption (in litres of pure alcohol) (SDG Indicator 3.5.2), three-year average
Series-level selection: for each country the whole series comes from the highest-priority source that has any non-forecast value for it. If a lower-priority source is more than three years fresher, the freshest source wins instead. Non-chosen values are kept as alternatives, never discarded.
Countries without data
Typical reasons: the source does not survey small territories or micro-states; the statistical office reports with a lag of one to three years; the series is only compiled for member countries of the source organisation (OECD, EU, Eurostat); or a value exists but failed validation and is quarantined rather than shown.
Downloads & API
Every observation for this indicator, all countries and years, with provenance columns.
API example
One country, full history. Replace CAN by any ISO3 code or slug.
curl -s "https://www.countryatlas.co/api/v1/series?country=CAN&indicator=alcohol-consumption" | jq '.series[0] | {country: .country.name, unit, last: .stats.last, source: .provenance.source_name}'