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August 01, 2009 6:00 AM

Drink Up America! We're #43!

LetzGoOut.com posted on August 01, 2009 6:00 AM

Are you kidding me? #43? We can do better than that!

This is a list of countries by alcohol consumption measured in litres of pure alcohol consumed per capita in a given year, according to the most recent data from the World Health Organization.

Rank	Country	Report[1]	Database[2]
1	Uganda[b]	19.47
2	Luxembourg	17.54	15.56
3	Czech Republic	16.21	12.99
4	Ireland	14.45	13.69
5	Moldova	13.88	13.18
6	Hungary	11.92	13.6
7	France	13.54	11.43
8	Réunion	13.39
9	Bermuda	12.92
10	Germany	12.89	11.99
11	Croatia	12.66	12.25
12	Austria	12.58	11.08
13	Portugal	12.49	11.54
14	Slovakia	12.41	10.35
15	Lithuania	12.32	9.89
16	Spain	12.25	11.68
17	Denmark	11.93	11.71
18	United Kingdom	10.39	11.75
19	Switzerland	11.53	10.83
20	Cyprus	6.67	11.52
21	Saint Lucia	10.45	11.48
22	Belgium	10.06	10.63
23	Russia	10.58	10.32
24	Nigeria[b]	10.04	10.57
25	Finland	10.43	9.31
26	Netherlands Antilles	9.94
27	Estonia	9.85	9
28	New Zealand	9.79	9.68
29	Netherlands	9.74	9.68
30	Romania	7.63	9.74
31	Latvia	9.31	9.61
32	Swaziland[b]	9.51	4.6
33	Niue	9.47
34	Burundi[b]	9.33	9.1
35	Greece	9.3	9.01
36	Bahamas	9.21
37	Australia	9.19	9.02
38	Dominica	9.19	7.5
39	Italy	9.14	8.02
40	Bosnia and Herzegovina	8.62	9.05
41	Venezuela	8.78	6.67
42	Poland	8.68	8.09
43	United States	8.51	8.61
44	Argentina	8.55	8.4
45	Thailand	8.47	5.59
46	Haiti	6.51	8.3
47	Canada	8.26	7.8
48	Belarus	8.12	5.53
49	Gabon	7.97	8.01
50	South Korea	7.71	7.87
51	New Caledonia	7.83
52	South Africa	7.81	6.72
53	Uruguay	6.96	7.74
54	French Polynesia	7.68
55	Saint Kitts and Nevis	7.62	6.73
56	Japan	7.38	7.59
57	Grenada	7.39	6.67
58	Bulgaria	7.13	5.86
59	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	6.58	7
60	Iceland	5.74	6.99
61	Bahrain	2.63	6.98
62	São Tomé and Príncipe	6.07	6.95
63	Azerbaijan	6.94	4.54
64	Rwanda	6.8	6.93
65	Laos	6.72	6.91
66	Sweden	6.86	5.96
67	Malta	6.74	6.02
68	Slovenia	6.55	6.74
69	Barbados	6.7
70	Dominican Republic	6.11	6.66
71	Paraguay	6.66	3.73
72	Sierra Leone	6.64	6.39
73	Chile	6.02	6.6
74	Belize	4.5	6.25
75	Ukraine	4.04	6.09
76	Panama	6.04	5.98
77	Namibia	2.39	5.97
78	Colombia	5.92	5.68
79	Guyana	5.84	3.84
80	Suriname	5.82
81	Norway	5.81	5.5
82	Brazil	5.32	5.76
83	Antigua and Barbuda	4.24	5.73
84	Macedonia	4.12	5.69
85	North Korea	5.68	3.26
86	Costa Rica	5.45	5.65
87	Kyrgyzstan	5.5	3.63
88	Tanzania	5.29	5.45
89	Botswana	5.38	4.29
90	China	4.45	5.2
91	Zimbabwe	5.08	4.41
92	Burkina Faso	4.38	5.01
93	Cape Verde	3.72	4.78
94	Peru	4.68	3.83
95	Mexico	4.62	4.57
96	Guam	4.5
97	Qatar	0.44	4.4
98	Trinidad and Tobago	3.22	4.17
99	Lebanon	4.13	3.24
100	Angola	2.91	3.86
101	Liberia	3.12	3.82
102	Cameroon	3.66	3.77
103	Philippines	3.75	3.51
104	Cook Islands	3.73
105	El Salvador	3.45	3.72
106	Cuba	3.65	2.26
107	Seychelles	3.61	3.36
108	Bolivia	3.43	3.23
109	Equatorial Guinea	0.9	3.38
110	Jamaica	3.37	1.74
111	Mauritius	3.16	3.03
112	Zambia	3.02	2.4
113	Kazakhstan	2.89	2.96
114	Honduras	2.28	2.92
115	Mongolia	1.96	2.83
116	Guinea-Bissau	2.76	2.19
117	United Arab Emirates	2.75	0.02
118	Singapore	2.73	2.17
119	Republic of the Congo	2.36	2.6
120	Gambia	2.27	2.59
121	Nicaragua	2.53	2.48
122	Albania	2.51	2.01
123	Israel	1.99	2.47
124	Georgia	2.41	1.47
125	Ecuador	1.99	2.36
126	Democratic Republic of the Congo	2.01	1.86
127	Lesotho	1.83	1.82
128	Djibouti	1.08	1.79
129	Côte d'Ivoire	1.71	1.77
130	Kenya	1.74	1.51
131	Samoa	1.42	1.73
132	Fiji	1.69	1.72
133	Maldives	1.72
134	Mozambique	1.67	0.52
135	Central African Republic	1.66	1.53
136	Kiribati	1.66	0.45
137	Guatemala	1.64	1.46
138	Papua New Guinea	1.01	1.62
139	Madagascar	1.38	1.59
140	Ghana	1.54	1.57
141	Eritrea	1.54	0.59
142	Uzbekistan	1.52	1.51
143	Armenia	1.23	1.48
144	Cambodia	0.36	1.48
145	Turkey	1.48	1.37
146	Malawi	1.44	1.41
147	Tuvalu	1.37
148	Vietnam	1.35	0.85
149	Oman	1.32	0.26
150	Benin	1.22	1.29
151	Togo	0.95	1.24
152	Federated States of Micronesia	0.64	1.23
153	Tunisia	0.65	1.23
154	Turkmenistan	0.77	1.18
155	Vanuatu	1.11	0.75
156	Malaysia	1.06	1.06
157	Solomon Islands	0.86	0.97
158	Ethiopia	0.91	0.86
159	Nauru	0.87
160	India	0.82	0.29
161	Tonga	0.75
162	Syria	0.62	0.49
163	Bhutan	0.57	0.23
164	Mali	0.49	0.5
165	Brunei	0.49	0.12
166	Senegal	0.48	0.46
167	Morocco	0.41	0.45
168	Tajikistan	0.41	0.39
169	Myanmar	0.36	0.33
170	Comoros	0.08	0.31
171	Jordan	0.11	0.31
172	Chad	0.23	0.31
173	Sudan	0.27	0.3
174	Sri Lanka	0.18	0.28
175	Egypt	0.1	0.21
176	Iraq	0.2	0.21
177	Guinea	0.14	0.2
178	Nepal	0.08	0.19
179	Algeria	0.03	0.15
180	Niger	0.11	0.05
181	Indonesia	0.1	0.09
182	Yemen	0.08	0.04
183	Kuwait	0	0.03
184	Pakistan	0.02	0.01
185	Afghanistan	0.01
186	Libya	0	0.01
187	Mauritania	0.01	0.01
188	Bangladesh	0	0
189	Iran	0	0
190	Saudi Arabia	0	0
191	Somalia	0	0