Which country consumes least alcohol?

Top 10 Countries with the Lowest Alcohol Consumption in 2019 (in liters of pure alcohol per capita):
  • Somalia, Bangladesh, Kuwait, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia (5-way tie) - 0.00.
  • Afghanistan - 0.013.
  • Libya - 0.027.
  • Yemen - 0.034.
  • Egypt - 0.14.
  • Syrian Arab Republic - 0.19.
  • Bhutan - 0.21.
  • Indonesia - 0.22.
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Which country has the lowest alcohol consumption?

The 10 countries that drink the least alcohol, in liters per capita over 15+ years, ranked:
  • Egypt (0.3 liters per capita over 15+ years)
  • Niger (0.3)
  • Bangladesh (0.2)
  • Comoros (0.2)
  • Saudi Arabia (0.2)
  • Yemen (0.2)
  • Kuwait (0.1)
  • Mauritania (0.1)
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Which country does not consume alcohol?

All the countries with complete bans on alcohol (Libya, Kuwait, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen) are majority Muslim. Because it is banned in the Quran, many Muslim countries tend to take a dim view of drinking even if they don't ban it outright for everyone.
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Which country is most alcoholic?

Top 10 Countries with the Highest Rates of Alcohol Use Disorder/Alcoholism (males):
  • Russia - 36.9%
  • Hungary - 36.9%
  • Belarus - 33.9%
  • Latvia - 28.8%
  • Slovenia - 23.5%
  • Slovakia - 22.8%
  • Poland - 22.7%
  • Estonia - 22.2%
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Which country drinks the least alcohol in Europe?

Of EU countries (including Norway and Switzerland), Lithuania had the highest alcohol per capita consumption (15.0 litres) in 2016, while Italy had the lowest (7.5 litres) (Figure 1).
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Country Alcohol Consumption Comparison



Do Japanese drink a lot of alcohol?

According to Euromonitor Japanese adults on average drink 4.4 shots of hard liquor per week, the fifth highest in the world behind top two South Korea and Russia.
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Which cultures drink the most?

Here's the top ten countries ranked by the number of times respondents from each country said they got drunk per year:
  • Finland: 23.8.
  • United States: 23.1.
  • United Kingdom: 22.5.
  • Canada: 22.
  • Ireland: 20.
  • France: 17.5.
  • Sweden: 16.
  • Netherlands: 15.7.
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Which country drinks most beer?

Top 10 Countries that Consume the Most Beer (total gallons consumed 2020):
  • China — 9,533,441.
  • United States — 6,367,867.
  • Brazil — 3,657,990.
  • Russia — 2,284,032.
  • Mexico — 2,189,194.
  • Germany — 2,046,277.
  • Japan — 1,166,584.
  • United Kingdom — 1,079,935.
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Who drinks most alcohol in world?

Belarus had the world's highest level of alcohol consumption, with 17.5 liters of alcohol consumed per capita. The country's high level of consumption has had serious health consequences on its residents.
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Is alcohol allowed In Pakistan?

Alcohol is largely prohibited for Muslims in Pakistan, but this doesn't stop a black market from ensuring a supply of illicit liquor. As in many countries around the world, there has been an overall increase alcohol consumption in Pakistan during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Do Muslims drink alcohol?

Although alcohol is considered haram (prohibited or sinful) by the majority of Muslims, a significant minority drinks, and those who do often outdrink their Western counterparts. Among drinkers, Chad and a number of other Muslim-majority countries top the global ranking for alcohol consumption.
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Why do Muslims not drink alcohol?

Bushra Nasir from Muslims Down Under explains: “The holy Qur'an describes different categories of foods, and alcohol falls under the category which is prohibited because it is harmful to the body, and that which is harmful to the body is harmful to the spirit.”
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How much alcohol does India consume?

Alcohol consumption in India amounted to about five billion liters in 2020 and was estimated to reach about 6.21 billion liters by 2024.
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Who is the biggest alcoholics of all time?

Let's Meet 5 Of The World's Greatest Drinkers Of All Time
  • Winston Churchill. My first choice is Sir Winston Churchill, the man who never surrendered and inspired Britain and half the world to defeat Hitler while on a martini diet. ...
  • Ernest Hemingway. ...
  • George Best. ...
  • Hunter S. ...
  • Frank Sinatra (And The Rat Pack)
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Who invented alcohol?

Sumerians. Between 3,000 to 2,000 B.C., Sumerians in Mesopotamia made beer. Researchers have found over 20 different beer recipes recorded on clay tablets. The Sumerians drank beer with straws because bits of mash and grain remained in the unfiltered alcohol mixture.
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Which country drink the most tea?

China is far and away the largest consumer of tea, at 1.6 billion pounds a year.
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Which country drinks the most coffee?

1. Finland — 12 kg/26 lbs — Finland is the world's biggest consumer of coffee on a per-person basis. The average Finn drinks nearly four cups a day. Coffee is so popular in Finland that two 10-minute coffee breaks are legally mandated for Finnish workers.
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Which country drinks the most wine?

Here is an updated list of the 10 countries that drink the most wine, according to OIV's preliminary figures for 2021.
  • US: 33.1mhl, up 0.7% versus 2020.
  • France: 25.2mhl, up 8.6%
  • Italy: 24.2mhl, flat versus 2020.
  • Germany: 19.8mhl, flat versus 2020.
  • UK: 13.4mhl, flat versus 2020.
  • Spain: 10.5mhl, up nearly 10%
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Who drinks more alcohol males or females?

Adult Men Drink More than Women

Almost 59% of adult men report drinking alcohol in the past 30 days compared with 47% of adult women.
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What country drinks the most water?

Overall, the world is using 9,087 billion cubic meters of water per year. China, India and the U.S. consumed the highest annual totals: 1,207 billion, 1,182 billion and 1,053 billion cubic meters, respectively, followed by Brazil at 482 billion.
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In which country do teenagers drink the most?

May 19th, 2020 10:41 am| by Christian W

“Denmark and Greece had the highest levels of both lifetime and current alcohol use at age 15, while Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan had the lowest,” the report found.
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Why are Asians sensitive alcohol?

In Asian populations, it is due to an inherited deficiency in one of the enzymes involved in the breakdown of alcohol: aldehyde dehydrogenase. This type of reaction is very rare, but not unknown, in other ethnic groups. But there is more to this deficiency than just an embarrassing reddening of the face.
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