Alcoholic Beverages Consumption by Country

In 2023, China held 11,223 thousand tonnes of listed alcohol food supply, 44.0 percent of a 25,499-thousand-tonne total spread across 172 reporters. Estonia recorded the highest per-capita figure at 20.99 kilograms per person per year. The series spans 2019 through 2023, although some reporters have missing values for individual years.

Almost all of the five-year growth came from elsewhere: the United States and India added a combined 1,214 thousand tonnes since 2019 while China added just 140.

China"s 11,223 thousand tonnes tower over India"s 3,079, but the per-capita crown sits in Estonia at 20.99 kilograms per person per year from 29 thousand tonnes. The Bahamas follows at 18.76 kilograms, and the whole per-capita top ten reads like an Eastern European and island list rather than a ranking of the volume leaders.

Alcoholic Beverages Food Supply at a Glance

• China had the largest listed alcoholic beverages food supply in 2023 at 11,223 thousand tonnes.
• India ranked second at 3,079 thousand tonnes, followed by the United States at 1,557 thousand tonnes.
• Estonia had the highest per-capita food supply at 20.99 kilograms per person per year.
• The 2023 listed total was 25,499 thousand tonnes across 172 reporters with reported values.
• Among 172 reporters with data in both 2019 and 2023, listed alcoholic beverages food supply increased by 1,946 thousand tonnes, or 8.3 percent.
• The FAO Food element measures food available for human consumption and is not a direct measure of the amount of alcohol actually drunk.

Key Takeaways

The central tension in this table is concentration without momentum. China owns 44.0 percent of supply but contributed almost nothing to five-year growth, while the United States and India delivered nearly two-thirds of it from a quarter of the total between them. The per-capita ranking tells a third story, led by Estonia at 20.99 kilograms against China's 7.89.

The year 2023 broke with the previous four. China fell 1,003 thousand tonnes in a single year, wiping out nearly all of its gains since 2019 and leaving a net five-year increase of just 140 thousand tonnes, while the United Kingdom tripled from 68 to 230 thousand tonnes. These figures represent food available for human consumption in the FAO Food Balances and should not be interpreted as a direct measure of alcohol consumption.

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#	Country	2023 (thousand tonnes)2023	2023 (kg per person per year)2023
1	China CN	11.22K	7.89
2	India IN	3.08K	2.14
3	United States US	1.56K	4.53
4	Russia RU	1.29K	8.85
5	Thailand TH	844	11.78
6	Philippines PH	735	6.39
7	France FR	601	9.05
8	Germany DE	547	6.47
9	South Africa ZA	456	7.21
10	Brazil BR	397	1.88
11	Vietnam VN	260	2.59
12	Ukraine UA	251	6.66
13	Poland PL	244	6.3
14	United Kingdom GB	230	3.35
15	Türkiye TR	165	1.89
16	Czech Republic CZ	164	15.2
17	Belarus BY	144	15.79
18	Nepal NP	126	4.24
19	Haiti HT	119	10.26
20	Romania RO	115	6.02
21	Australia AU	114	4.3
22	Colombia CO	111	2.12
23	Peru PE	110	3.25
24	Kazakhstan KZ	108	5.3
25	Portugal PT	107	10.3
26	South Korea KR	106	2.05
27	Taiwan TW	91	3.9
28	Hungary HU	88	9.1
29	Spain ES	88	1.84
30	Sweden SE	87	8.24
31	Uzbekistan UZ	87	2.43
32	Azerbaijan AZ	82	7.93
33	Myanmar MM	78	1.44
34	Italy IT	68	1.15
35	Zimbabwe ZW	63	3.86
36	Argentina AR	62	1.35
37	Venezuela VE	59	2.08
38	Cameroon CM	53	1.85
39	Dominican Republic DO	50	4.43
40	Denmark DK	49	8.31
41	Chile CL	47	2.39
42	Bosnia and Herzegovina BA	45	14.02
43	Netherlands NL	44	2.43
44	Serbia RS	43	6.38
45	Guatemala GT	39	2.13
46	Slovakia SK	37	6.67
47	Mexico MX	35	0.27
48	Mongolia MN	35	10.07
49	Costa Rica CR	34	6.74
50	Indonesia ID	30	0.11
51	Nicaragua NI	30	4.47
52	Estonia EE	29	20.99
53	Laos LA	28	3.61
54	El Salvador SV	27	4.35
55	Nigeria NG	27	0.12
56	Paraguay PY	27	3.93
57	Honduras HN	26	2.43
58	Angola AO	24	0.66
59	Switzerland CH	24	2.73
60	Ethiopia ET	23	0.18
61	Kyrgyzstan KG	23	3.27
62	Lithuania LT	23	7.89
63	Israel IL	21	2.27
64	Jamaica JM	21	7.53
65	Kenya KE	21	0.39
66	Namibia NA	21	7.04
67	Iraq IQ	19	0.5
68	Liberia LR	19	3.39
69	Panama PA	19	4.15
70	Austria AT	17	1.89
71	Ghana GH	17	0.5
72	Zambia ZM	17	0.84
73	Canada CA	16	0.42
74	Cambodia KH	15	0.88
75	Finland FI	15	2.63
76	Ecuador EC	14	0.8
77	Hong Kong HK	14	1.84
78	Ireland IE	14	2.68
79	Greece GR	12	1.19
80	Norway NO	12	2.12
81	Tanzania TZ	12	0.17
82	Malaysia MY	11	0.31
83	Moldova MD	11	4.16
84	Croatia HR	10	2.67
85	Jordan JO	10	0.91
86	New Zealand NZ	10	1.85
87	Bulgaria BG	9	1.25
88	Uruguay UY	9	2.72
89	Botswana BW	8	3.4
90	Latvia LV	8	3.98
91	Luxembourg LU	8	12.03
92	Morocco MA	8	0.22
93	Uganda UG	8	0.16
94	Bahamas BS	7	18.76
95	Cyprus CY	7	5.08
96	DR Congo CD	7	0.06
97	Bolivia BO	6	0.47
98	Fiji FJ	6	6.62
99	Malawi MW	6	0.27
100	North Macedonia MK	6	3.41
101	Rwanda RW	6	0.4
102	Slovenia SI	6	2.68
103	Belgium BE	5	0.39
104	Congo CG	5	0.73
105	Ivory Coast CI	5	0.17
106	Lebanon LB	5	0.81
107	Mozambique MZ	5	0.16
108	Oman OM	5	1.03
109	Papua New Guinea PG	5	0.45
110	Sri Lanka LK	5	0.2
111	Trinidad and Tobago TT	5	3.53
112	Tunisia TN	5	0.43
113	Bahrain BH	4	2.63
114	Macau MO	4	6.08
115	Albania AL	3	1.06
116	Eswatini SZ	3	2.2
117	Malta MT	3	6.35
118	Barbados BB	2	6.82
119	Burkina Faso BF	2	0.07
120	Egypt EG	2	0.02
121	Gabon GA	2	0.77
122	Georgia GE	2	0.53
123	Guinea GN	2	0.16
124	Lesotho LS	2	0.74
125	Niger NE	2	0.09
126	Qatar QA	2	0.64
127	Suriname SR	2	2.64
128	Tajikistan TJ	2	0.17
129	Antigua and Barbuda AG	1	7.91
130	Armenia AM	1	0.31
131	Bangladesh BD	1	0
132	Belize BZ	1	3.37
133	Bhutan BT	1	0.85
134	Cape Verde CV	1	1.85
135	Gambia GM	1	0.36
136	Grenada GD	1	10.28
137	Guinea-Bissau GW	1	0.65
138	Madagascar MG	1	0.04
139	Maldives MV	1	1.36
140	Mauritius MU	1	1
141	Montenegro ME	1	0.83
142	New Caledonia NC	1	3.29
143	Saint Lucia LC	1	6.14
144	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines VC	1	8.42
145	Senegal SN	1	0.05
146	Seychelles SC	1	4.49
147	Sierra Leone SL	1	0.06
148	Syria SY	1	0.05
149	Turkmenistan TM	1	0.1
150	Vanuatu VU	1	2.79
151	Afghanistan AF	0	0.01
152	Algeria DZ	0	0
153	Comoros KM	0	0.32
154	Djibouti DJ	0	0.18
155	French Polynesia PF	0	1.63
156	Guyana GY	0	0.38
157	Iceland IS	0	0.61
158	Kiribati KI	0	0.46
159	Kuwait KW	0	0
160	Libya LY	0	0.01
161	Marshall Islands MH	0	1.89
162	Mauritania MR	0	0
163	Micronesia FM	0	2.38
164	Nauru NR	0	2.62
165	Saint Kitts and Nevis KN	0	5.74
166	Samoa WS	0	0.86
167	Sao Tome and Principe ST	0	0.57
168	Solomon Islands SB	0	0.14
169	Timor-Leste TL	0	0.2
170	Tonga TO	0	4.14
171	Tuvalu TV	0	4.49
172	Yemen YE	0	0.01

Alcoholic Beverages Consumption by Country in 2023

China owns nearly half the 2023 table at 11,223 thousand tonnes, with India next at 3,079 and the United States at 1,557. Russia and Thailand round out the top five at 1,287 and 844 thousand tonnes. The most volatile line belongs to the United Kingdom, which tripled from 68 thousand tonnes in 2022 to 230 thousand tonnes in 2023.

The top three reporters accounted for 62.2 percent of the 25,499-thousand-tonne listed total, while the top five represented 70.6 percent and the top ten 81.3 percent. Below the giants the table spreads wide: no other reporter reaches 1,000 thousand tonnes except Russia and Thailand, and the per-capita order reverses almost everything, crowning Estonia at 20.99 kilograms.

2023 Breaks the Trend: China Falls While the United Kingdom Triples

Among the 172 reporters present in both 2022 and 2023, listed supply slipped from 26,608 thousand tonnes to 25,499 thousand tonnes, a decline of 1,109 thousand tonnes (4.2 percent). China's 1,003-thousand-tonne drop explains nearly the whole 1,109-thousand-tonne net decline, with South Korea, South Africa, Thailand and Australia falling alongside. Against that tide, the United Kingdom's jump from 68 to 230 thousand tonnes stands out, joined by smaller gains in India and Russia.

Two Countries, Two-Thirds of Five Years of Growth

For the 172 reporters with data in both 2019 and 2023, the listed food supply rose from 23,553 thousand tonnes to 25,499 thousand tonnes, a gain of 1,946 thousand tonnes (8.3 percent). The 2019 total includes 173 reporters with reported values, while the 2023 total includes 172; Cuba, with 207 thousand tonnes in 2019, had no reported 2023 value.

Strip out China and the five-year story belongs to two reporters. The United States added 656 thousand tonnes (up 72.8 percent) and India 558 thousand tonnes (up 22.1 percent), together 1,214 thousand tonnes against a net gain of 1,946. South Africa, the United Kingdom and Brazil added smaller but real increments of 201, 156 and 141 thousand tonnes, while China managed just 140 thousand tonnes (up 1.3 percent) and Germany and Mexico fell 136 and 105 thousand tonnes.

What changed between the windows is who carried the weight. From 2019 to 2023 the gains spread across several reporters, but in 2023 alone almost everything netted through China's single decline. Per capita, Estonia's 20.99 kilograms from 29 thousand tonnes lead the Bahamas at 18.76 kilograms, while China, first by total, records 7.89 kilograms.

What Does the Alcoholic Beverages Food Supply Measure?

For FAO Food Balances, the figure used here is the FAO item Beverages, Alcoholic recorded under the Food element as available for human consumption. It represents food available for human consumption during the reference year rather than a direct estimate of the amount of alcohol people actually drank. Wine, beer and fermented beverages recorded under separate items sit outside this figure. This distinction is important when comparing alcohol consumption by country, because the FAO Food element measures food available for human consumption rather than the amount of alcohol actually consumed.

The per-capita figure expresses the same food supply on a population basis, in kilograms per person per year. A country's total quantity and per-capita value therefore answer different questions: total quantity shows the size of the listed food supply, while the per-capita measure adjusts it for population.

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#	Country	2019 (1000 t)	2019 (kg/cap/yr)	2020 (1000 t)	2020 (kg/cap/yr)	2021 (1000 t)	2021 (kg/cap/yr)	2022 (1000 t)	2022 (kg/cap/yr)	2023 (1000 t)	2023 (kg/cap/yr)
1	China	11.08K	7.79	10.58K	7.42	11.04K	7.74	12.23K	8.58	11.22K	7.89
2	India	2.52K	1.81	2.62K	1.87	2.73K	1.93	2.97K	2.08	3.08K	2.14
3	United States	901	2.67	1.42K	4.18	1.31K	3.86	1.54K	4.5	1.56K	4.53
4	Russia	1.2K	8.17	1.15K	7.87	1.22K	8.38	1.21K	8.29	1.29K	8.85
5	Thailand	884	12.36	962	13.43	817	11.4	913	12.72	844	11.78
6	Philippines	686	6.19	665	5.93	638	5.64	743	6.52	735	6.39
7	France	551	8.38	683	10.36	480	7.26	587	8.86	601	9.05
8	Germany	683	8.17	597	7.13	541	6.46	575	6.84	547	6.47
9	South Africa	255	4.28	700	11.55	681	11.07	528	8.47	456	7.21
10	Brazil	256	1.23	319	1.53	348	1.66	381	1.81	397	1.88
11	Vietnam	310	3.19	302	3.08	290	2.93	318	3.19	260	2.59
12	Ukraine	298	6.62	280	6.26	284	6.42	267	6.5	251	6.66
13	Poland	225	5.9	248	6.49	244	6.41	235	6.13	244	6.3
14	United Kingdom	74	1.1	135	2	98	1.44	68	1	230	3.35
15	Türkiye	121	1.42	133	1.55	135	1.55	152	1.75	165	1.89
16	Czech Republic	163	15.46	163	15.43	171	16.26	175	16.38	164	15.2
17	Belarus	129	13.7	135	14.39	139	15.02	142	15.47	144	15.79
18	Nepal	53	1.87	104	3.59	115	3.89	115	3.87	126	4.24
19	Haiti	164	14.78	119	10.59	120	10.59	121	10.49	119	10.26
20	Romania	68	3.47	73	3.75	127	6.6	118	6.16	115	6.02
21	Australia	99	3.88	149	5.79	149	5.75	175	6.67	114	4.3
22	Colombia	95	1.91	99	1.95	113	2.2	133	2.57	111	2.12
23	Peru	129	3.97	132	4.02	107	3.22	114	3.42	110	3.25
24	Kazakhstan	100	5.22	101	5.21	100	5.09	105	5.25	108	5.3
25	Portugal	94	9.05	84	8.12	87	8.39	98	9.39	107	10.3
26	South Korea	184	3.56	168	3.24	155	2.98	212	4.09	106	2.05
27	Taiwan	82	3.48	73	3.07	82	3.49	83	3.56	91	3.9
28	Hungary	67	6.9	82	8.42	76	7.79	94	9.66	88	9.1
29	Spain	85	1.8	78	1.64	52	1.1	78	1.62	88	1.84
30	Sweden	49	4.74	61	5.86	81	7.79	76	7.23	87	8.24
31	Uzbekistan	78	2.36	84	2.49	79	2.31	76	2.17	87	2.43
32	Azerbaijan	121	11.94	125	12.31	120	11.74	115	11.16	82	7.93
33	Myanmar	20	0.38	21	0.39	44	0.82	63	1.16	78	1.44
34	Italy	56	0.93	93	1.56	71	1.19	67	1.12	68	1.15
35	Zimbabwe	64	4.21	61	3.91	65	4.14	63	3.95	63	3.86
36	Argentina	69	1.53	66	1.47	73	1.61	71	1.56	62	1.35
37	Venezuela	40	1.38	41	1.46	57	2	59	2.07	59	2.08
38	Cameroon	21	0.84	23	0.87	44	1.62	44	1.61	53	1.85
39	Dominican Republic	34	3.11	45	4.06	44	3.94	51	4.5	50	4.43
40	Denmark	19	3.29	28	4.88	32	5.55	51	8.65	49	8.31
41	Chile	47	2.45	70	3.63	85	4.37	68	3.48	47	2.39
42	Bosnia and Herzegovina	49	14.51	42	12.75	44	13.48	48	15.08	45	14.02
43	Netherlands	68	3.86	34	1.92	7	0.41	45	2.51	44	2.43
44	Serbia	58	8.3	52	7.49	43	6.31	44	6.5	43	6.38
45	Guatemala	30	1.76	31	1.8	39	2.23	34	1.93	39	2.13
46	Slovakia	20	3.66	27	4.89	27	4.99	37	6.76	37	6.67
47	Mexico	140	1.12	153	1.21	139	1.09	44	0.34	35	0.27
48	Mongolia	27	8.37	26	8.03	31	9.36	32	9.54	35	10.07
49	Costa Rica	41	8.27	41	8.14	47	9.26	47	9.27	34	6.74
50	Indonesia	30	0.11	38	0.14	35	0.13	35	0.13	30	0.11
51	Nicaragua	22	3.46	24	3.66	25	3.7	24	3.51	30	4.47
52	Estonia	25	18.48	27	20.03	27	20.01	27	20.14	29	20.99
53	Laos	31	4.22	26	3.57	33	4.47	20	2.64	28	3.61
54	El Salvador	27	4.37	17	2.77	29	4.58	26	4.21	27	4.35
55	Nigeria	17	0.08	25	0.12	28	0.13	31	0.14	27	0.12
56	Paraguay	25	3.83	28	4.18	33	5	37	5.48	27	3.93
57	Honduras	25	2.54	26	2.61	33	3.25	26	2.53	26	2.43
58	Angola	34	1.06	21	0.62	20	0.58	22	0.61	24	0.66
59	Switzerland	21	2.49	23	2.68	24	2.76	26	3.01	24	2.73
60	Ethiopia	25	0.22	19	0.16	23	0.19	22	0.17	23	0.18
61	Kyrgyzstan	21	3.17	21	3.22	18	2.64	23	3.31	23	3.27
62	Lithuania	23	8.17	23	8.08	22	7.86	22	7.9	23	7.89
63	Israel	25	2.88	26	2.97	34	3.81	32	3.52	21	2.27
64	Jamaica	11	3.87	11	3.91	11	3.77	8	2.93	21	7.53
65	Kenya	29	0.57	24	0.47	26	0.49	26	0.49	21	0.39
66	Namibia	18	6.61	15	5.6	18	6.34	21	7.26	21	7.04
67	Iraq	15	0.44	20	0.56	21	0.58	21	0.54	19	0.5
68	Liberia	21	4.09	18	3.56	19	3.62	18	3.43	19	3.39
69	Panama	12	2.72	7	1.74	15	3.39	18	4.05	19	4.15
70	Austria	17	1.91	20	2.23	19	2.13	18	2.01	17	1.89
71	Ghana	22	0.7	19	0.6	34	1.04	36	1.09	17	0.5
72	Zambia	5	0.24	6	0.29	6	0.32	14	0.69	17	0.84
73	Canada	2	0.05	12	0.31	7	0.18	36	0.92	16	0.42
74	Cambodia	8	0.46	8	0.45	9	0.54	11	0.63	15	0.88
75	Finland	30	5.52	39	7	28	4.97	28	5.02	15	2.63
76	Ecuador	14	0.78	12	0.66	14	0.78	15	0.86	14	0.8
77	Hong Kong	13	1.71	13	1.79	12	1.58	12	1.59	14	1.84
78	Ireland	15	3.12	18	3.55	12	2.35	12	2.39	14	2.68
79	Greece	23	2.18	20	1.89	17	1.59	23	2.17	12	1.19
80	Norway	10	1.82	11	2.12	12	2.19	18	3.3	12	2.12
81	Tanzania	9	0.15	7	0.11	6	0.09	10	0.15	12	0.17
82	Malaysia	6	0.17	6	0.19	9	0.26	12	0.36	11	0.31
83	Moldova	12	4.6	9	3.69	8	3.34	4	1.52	11	4.16
84	Croatia	15	3.78	14	3.44	11	2.84	12	3.15	10	2.67
85	Jordan	2	0.22	2	0.19	1	0.12	7	0.65	10	0.91
86	New Zealand	5	1	3	0.58	0	0.06	6	1.12	10	1.85
87	Bulgaria	15	2.12	11	1.64	12	1.8	13	1.97	9	1.25
88	Uruguay	8	2.26	8	2.45	9	2.53	10	2.89	9	2.72
89	Botswana	7	3.1	6	2.74	6	2.56	9	3.54	8	3.4
90	Latvia	9	4.58	5	2.45	6	3.18	7	3.46	8	3.98
91	Luxembourg	8	12.9	8	12.69	8	12.49	8	12.25	8	12.03
92	Morocco	6	0.15	6	0.16	6	0.18	7	0.19	8	0.22
93	Uganda	17	0.38	13	0.3	13	0.29	5	0.12	8	0.16
94	Bahamas	5	13.63	5	12.02	5	13.57	6	15.73	7	18.76
95	Cyprus	6	5	4	3	5	3.53	7	5.32	7	5.08
96	DR Congo	26	0.28	1	0.01	1	0.01	4	0.04	7	0.06
97	Bolivia	7	0.56	6	0.52	5	0.46	7	0.6	6	0.47
98	Fiji	2	2.46	3	3.52	2	2.23	3	3.06	6	6.62
99	Malawi	2	0.1	5	0.25	4	0.22	6	0.3	6	0.27
100	North Macedonia	4	2.29	5	2.49	6	3.07	6	3.21	6	3.41
101	Rwanda	4	0.29	0	0.03	6	0.42	12	0.9	6	0.4
102	Slovenia	4	2.14	4	2.02	5	2.3	6	2.74	6	2.68
103	Belgium	12	1	8	0.72	13	1.16	12	1.07	5	0.39
104	Congo	3	0.62	2	0.39	3	0.47	4	0.72	5	0.73
105	Ivory Coast	1	0.03	5	0.16	12	0.39	8	0.25	5	0.17
106	Lebanon	6	1.08	4	0.68	5	0.84	4	0.62	5	0.81
107	Mozambique	19	0.63	0	0	2	0.05	7	0.21	5	0.16
108	Oman	13	2.83	5	1.05	10	2.21	9	1.88	5	1.03
109	Papua New Guinea	6	0.64	11	1.16	4	0.4	5	0.46	5	0.45
110	Sri Lanka	7	0.3	2	0.1	2	0.1	3	0.15	5	0.2
111	Trinidad and Tobago	1	0.59	1	0.84	5	3.14	3	2.1	5	3.53
112	Tunisia	2	0.17	2	0.2	2	0.21	3	0.24	5	0.43
113	Bahrain	4	2.6	3	2.17	3	2.33	4	2.79	4	2.63
114	Macau	3	4.29	3	4.75	4	6.09	5	6.53	4	6.08
115	Albania	2	0.79	4	1.44	4	1.46	4	1.27	3	1.06
116	Eswatini	0	0.21	0	0	1	0.71	1	0.5	3	2.2
117	Malta	3	5.36	2	3.74	2	2.91	2	4.07	3	6.35
118	Barbados	1	4.69	1	3.5	1	3.53	1	2.07	2	6.82
119	Burkina Faso	5	0.25	3	0.15	5	0.24	6	0.28	2	0.07
120	Egypt	7	0.06	1	0.01	0	0	2	0.02	2	0.02
121	Gabon	2	0.9	2	0.91	2	1	2	0.93	2	0.77
122	Georgia	3	0.88	3	0.69	2	0.64	3	0.74	2	0.53
123	Guinea	0	0.02	1	0.04	1	0.08	2	0.12	2	0.16
124	Lesotho	2	0.74	2	0.83	3	1.16	4	1.53	2	0.74
125	Niger	0	0.02	3	0.13	4	0.16	3	0.11	2	0.09
126	Qatar	4	1.33	4	1.31	4	1.26	5	1.7	2	0.64
127	Suriname	3	4.29	3	4.9	3	4.37	0	0.02	2	2.64
128	Tajikistan	2	0.18	2	0.18	2	0.19	2	0.19	2	0.17
129	Antigua and Barbuda	1	11.3	1	8.76	1	7.11	1	7.64	1	7.91
130	Armenia	3	1.16	3	1	3	1	2	0.74	1	0.31
131	Bangladesh	1	0.01	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	0
132	Belize	3	6.8	3	6.96	2	5.06	1	3.21	1	3.37
133	Bhutan	0	0.54	0	0.63	1	0.73	1	0.68	1	0.85
134	Cape Verde	1	1.85	1	1.56	1	1.43	1	1.63	1	1.85
135	Gambia	0	0.02	0	0.01	0	0	1	0.25	1	0.36
136	Grenada	1	11.18	1	7.83	1	7.92	1	10.82	1	10.28
137	Guinea-Bissau	1	0.67	1	0.67	1	0.66	1	0.65	1	0.65
138	Madagascar	5	0.19	5	0.19	1	0.04	1	0.04	1	0.04
139	Maldives	1	1.35	0	0.65	0	0.78	1	1.47	1	1.36
140	Mauritius	2	1.78	2	1.32	1	0.87	1	0.96	1	1
141	Montenegro	2	3.06	2	2.87	2	3.01	2	2.65	1	0.83
142	New Caledonia	1	2.41	1	1.95	1	2.8	1	3.42	1	3.29
143	Saint Lucia	1	5.47	1	5.17	1	5.59	1	7.89	1	6.14
144	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1	8.48	1	7.73	1	6.82	1	7.79	1	8.42
145	Senegal	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.02	1	0.05
146	Seychelles	1	7.14	1	6.94	1	6.53	1	7.09	1	4.49
147	Sierra Leone	1	0.08	1	0.08	1	0.1	1	0.09	1	0.06
148	Syria	3	0.15	2	0.11	2	0.09	2	0.1	1	0.05
149	Turkmenistan	1	0.16	2	0.3	2	0.27	1	0.1	1	0.1
150	Vanuatu	1	2.65	0	1.37	0	1.25	1	2.09	1	2.79
151	Afghanistan	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0	0	0.01
152	Algeria	5	0.13	4	0.08	4	0.09	2	0.04	0	0
153	Comoros	0	0.2	0	0.21	0	0.34	0	0.32	0	0.32
154	Djibouti	1	0.8	1	1.09	1	0.85	0	0	0	0.18
155	French Polynesia	1	2.11	0	0.95	1	1.79	0	1.13	0	1.63
156	Guyana	0	0	0	0	0	0.12	0	0.37	0	0.38
157	Iceland	1	1.44	0	0.95	0	0.97	0	0.86	0	0.61
158	Kiribati	0	0.12	0	0.45	0	1.15	0	0.12	0	0.46
159	Kuwait	0	0	2	0.47	0	0.03	0	0.01	0	0
160	Libya	0	0	0	0.06	0	0.01	0	0	0	0.01
161	Marshall Islands	0	1.94	0	1.7	0	1.54	0	1.37	0	1.89
162	Mauritania	0	0.02	0	0	0	0.01	0	0	0	0
163	Micronesia	0	1.14	0	1.85	0	2	0	1.35	0	2.38
164	Nauru	0	3.62	0	4.55	0	5.25	0	4.14	0	2.62
165	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0	5.32	0	4.97	0	5.87	0	5.06	0	5.74
166	Samoa	0	0.14	0	0.33	0	0	0	0.42	0	0.86
167	Sao Tome and Principe	0	0.25	0	0.31	0	0.52	0	0.29	0	0.57
168	Solomon Islands	0	0.15	0	0.12	0	0.15	0	0.11	0	0.14
169	Timor-Leste	0	0.12	0	0.12	0	0.01	0	0.14	0	0.2
170	Tonga	0	2.26	0	2.09	0	2.57	0	3.2	0	4.14
171	Tuvalu	0	1.44	0	0.26	0	1.69	0	4.71	0	4.49
172	Yemen	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.01
173	Cuba	207	18.47	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Alcoholic Beverages Consumption by Country: Quick Answer

In 2023, according to FAO Food Balances, China had the largest listed alcoholic beverages food supply among the 172 reporters with reported values, at 11,223 thousand tonnes. India ranked second at 3,079 thousand tonnes, while the United States ranked third at 1,557 thousand tonnes. Estonia had the highest per-capita alcoholic beverages food supply at 20.99 kilograms per person per year. These figures describe listed alcoholic beverages food supply and should not be interpreted as a direct measure of alcohol consumption.

Methodology

Percentage changes use the corresponding value in the earlier year as the base. Yearly totals use FAO Food Balances food quantity (Element 5142, thousand tonnes), while the per-capita figures use food supply quantity (Element 645, kg/capita/year) for Beverages, Alcoholic from 2019 through 2023. The Food element represents the quantity available for human consumption during the reference period. It is not a direct measure of the amount actually drunk, as additional losses or waste may occur after food reaches the consumer. No percentage change is shown where the base-year value is zero.

The reporter universe for this item contains 173 reporters. The tables list reporters only; aggregate rows such as World, regions and China (aggregate) are excluded, while China figures refer to the China reporter. For year-to-year comparisons, only reporters with values in both endpoint years are included in the arithmetic. A zero indicates a displayed value of zero, while an empty cell indicates that no value is available for that reporter and year.

Quantities of 1,000 thousand tonnes and above are shown as whole numbers; smaller quantities retain up to two decimals. FAO Food Balances primarily use official national statistics, with some data also estimated or imputed where applicable. The FAO dataset reports the Food element in thousand tonnes and food supply quantity in kilograms per capita per year. The 2023 listed total of 25,499 thousand tonnes is the sum of the 172 reporters with a reported 2023 value; it excludes aggregate rows and reporters without a 2023 value.