Who are the biggest drinkers in the world?

Australians have been named the heaviest drinkers in the world in a survey after spending more time drunk in 2020 than any other nation. The international survey found Australians drank to the point of drunkenness an average of 27 times a year, almost double the global average of 15.
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Who consumes the most alcohol in the world?

Belarus. Belarus is a landlocked country located in Eastern Europe. This nation tops the list of countries consuming the most alcohol world-wide. Citizens of Belarus consume 14.4 liters of alcohol per person, per year.
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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 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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What race drinks the most alcohol?

Across specific beverage types (i.e., wine, beer, and liquor), Puerto Rican (5.1 to 11.2 drinks/week) and Mexican-American (4.1 to 7.0 drinks/week) men drink the most and have the highest rates of binge drinking (19.6 to 35.0 percent and 13.3 to 36.8 percent, respectively) compared with Cuban (4.1 to 7.0 drinks/week; ...
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Country Alcohol Consumption Comparison



Who is the strongest drinker in the world?

Spirytus Rektyfikowany (96% Alcohol)

Spirytus is actually more potent than the widely-known Everclear and sits atop as the world's strongest alcoholic beverage.
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What race drinks the most beer?

Read on for the top 10.
  • Romania. 100.3 litres per capita.
  • Germany. 99.0 litres per capita.
  • Poland. 97.7 litres per capita.
  • Namibia. 95.5 litres per capita.
  • Ireland. 92.9 litres per capita.
  • Spain. 88.8 litres per capita.
  • Croatia. 85.5 litres per capita.
  • Latvia. 81.4 litres per capita.
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Which country consumes least alcohol?

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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Who buys the most alcohol?

China was the global leader in alcohol consumption by volume in 2018. The nation consumed 54.29 billion liters of alcohol, nearly double the United States, the second ranked country. This consumption translates to a market value of 285.9 billion U.S. dollars for China.
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Which country drink the 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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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 country drink most tea?

China is far and away the largest consumer of tea, at 1.6 billion pounds a year. But per person, as illustrated in the map above, the picture is a lot different: Turkey, Ireland, and the United Kingdom are home to the world's biggest tea drinkers.
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Which countries do not drink 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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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 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 most wine?

Top 10 countries that drink the most wine
  • 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%
  • China: 10.5mhl, down 15.4%
  • Russia: 10.5mhl, up 2%
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Who drinks the most vodka?

No one downs vodka like Russia does. The Russians drink some 17.3 shots of vodka per month on average, according to data from Euromonitor. That's easily the most in the world.
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Can you drink 100% alcohol?

According to Livestrong.org, "The approximate lethal dose of 90 to 100 percent isopropanol for human adults is only 250 milliliters, or about 8 ounces." Eight ounces. To put it in perspective: the average shot glass is 1.5 ounces. A can of Coke is 12 ounces. Ingesting only eight ounces of rubbing alcohol can kill you.
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What is the weakest alcohol?

Beer generally has the weakest alcohol content, while pure ethanol is the strongest. The stable pure form of ethanol, by the way, is actually around 96 percent alcohol.
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What drink has least alcohol?

5% alcohol by volume and are considered non-alcoholic by the Food and Drug Administration.
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  • Ghia.
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Who is more likely to be an alcoholic?

Age Factors

Individuals in their early to mid-twenties are the most likely to abuse alcohol and suffer from alcohol use disorders. The younger that an individual starts consuming alcohol, the more likely they are to develop alcoholism later in life. This is especially true of individuals who start drinking before 15.
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Which 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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Which country drinks the most soda?

In 2019, Mexico was the country with the highest carbonated soft drink consumption, namely over 630 8-ounce servings per capita per year. The United States stood in second place, with almost the same quantity, while Brazil, which ranked third, consumed less than half the soft drinks Mexicans drank that year.
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