Indicator name	"Alcohol consumption per adult (15+), litres"
Definition of indicator	"Recorded and estimated average alcohol consumption, adult (15+) per capita consumption in litres pure alcohol"
Source organization(s)	WHO
Link to source organization	www.who.int
VERSION	INDICATOR_V2_EN
Albania	0.03
Algeria	7.29
Andorra	0.69
Angola	10.17
Antigua and Barbuda	5.57
Argentina	8.17
Armenia	9.35
Australia	13.66
Austria	10.21
Azerbaijan	12.4
Bahamas	13.34
Bahrain	8.65
Bangladesh	4.19
Barbados	0.17
Belarus	6.42
Belgium	18.85
Belize	10.41
Benin	5.92
Bhutan	2.08
Bolivia	0.54
Bosnia and Herzegovina	5.78
Botswana	9.6
Brazil	6.97
Brunei	10.08
Bulgaria	1.86
Burkina Faso	11.4
Burundi	7.32
Cambodia	9.65
Cameroon	4.71
Canada	7.9
Cape Verde	10.2
Central African Republic	4.98
Chad	3.17
Chile	4.39
China	8.81
Colombia	5.56
Comoros	6.59
Congo [DRC]	0.28
Congo [Republic]	3.39
Cook Islands	4.46
Costa Rica	3.23
Côte d'Ivoire	5.81
Croatia	6.47
Cuba	15
Cyprus	5.12
Czech Republic	-99
Denmark	16.47
Djibouti	12.02
Dominica	1.87
Dominican Republic	8.68
Ecuador	6.28
Egypt	9.43
El Salvador	0.32
Equatorial Guinea	3.99
Eritrea	6.12
Estonia	1.64
Ethiopia	17.24
Fiji	4.1
Finland	2.76
France	13.1
Gabon	12.48
Gambia	9.46
Georgia	3.58
Germany	6.66
Ghana	12.14
Greece	3.11
Grenada	11.01
Guatemala	10.71
Guinea	7.1
Guinea-Bissau	0.79
Guyana	3.9
Haiti	8.7
Honduras	5.92
Hungary	4.43
Iceland	16.12
India	7.38
Indonesia	2.69
Iran	0.56
Iraq	1.03
Ireland	0.47
Israel	14.92
Italy	2.52
Jamaica	9.72
Japan	5.17
Jordan	7.79
Kazakhstan	0.65
Kenya	11.1
Kiribati	3.88
Kuwait	2.7
Kyrgyzstan	0.1
Laos	4.72
Latvia	6.99
Lebanon	13.45
Lesotho	2.3
Liberia	5.56
Libya	5.07
Lithuania	0.1
Luxembourg	16.3
Macedonia [FYROM]	12.84
Madagascar	8.94
Malawi	1.32
Malaysia	1.44
Mali	0.87
Malta	0.99
Mauritania	4.1
Mauritius	0.11
Mexico	3.53
Micronesia	8.55
Moldova	5.25
Mongolia	23.01
Morocco	3.41
Mozambique	1.24
Myanmar [Burma]	2.27
Namibia	0.58
Nauru	12.09
Nepal	4.81
Netherlands	2.42
New Zealand	9.75
Nicaragua	9.99
Niger	5.21
Nigeria	0.34
Niue	12.72
North Korea	8.69
Norway	
Oman	8.35
Pakistan	0.92
Palau	0.05
Panama	9.86
Papua New Guinea	7.3
Paraguay	3.64
Peru	7.91
Philippines	6.53
Poland	6.08
Portugal	14.43
Puerto Rico	13.89
Qatar	
Romania	1.29
Russia	16.15
Rwanda	16.23
Saint Kitts and Nevis	9.99
Saint Lucia	10.62
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	12.05
Samoa	4.99
São Tomé and Príncipe	4.51
Saudi Arabia	8.45
Senegal	0.34
Serbia	0.51
Seychelles	12.21
Sierra Leone	12.11
Singapore	9.48
Slovakia	1.54
Slovenia	13.31
Solomon Islands	14.94
Somalia	1.37
South Africa	0.5
South Korea	10.16
Spain	19.15
Sri Lanka	11.83
Sudan	0.81
Suriname	2.56
Swaziland	6.56
Sweden	5.05
Switzerland	9.5
Syria	11.41
Tajikistan	1.49
Tanzania	3.39
Thailand	7.86
Timor-Leste	7.08
Togo	0.74
Tonga	1.92
Trinidad and Tobago	3.92
Tunisia	6.16
Turkey	1.05
Turkmenistan	3.02
Tuvalu	5
Uganda	2.14
Ukraine	16.4
United Arab Emirates	17.47
United Kingdom	0.52
United States	13.24
Uruguay	9.7
Uzbekistan	8.99
Vanuatu	3.61
Venezuela	0.96
Vietnam	7.6
Yemen	3.91
Zambia	0.2
Zimbabwe	3.56
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	"Alcohol consumption per adult (15+), litres"			
				
	Definition and explanations			
	Indicator name	"Alcohol consumption per adult (15+), litres"		
	Definition of indicator	"Recorded and estimated average alcohol consumption, adult (15+) per capita consumption in litres pure alcohol"		
	Unit of measurement			
				
	Data source			
	Source organization(s)	WHO		
				
	Link to source organization	www.who.int		
	Complete reference	"WHO:s ""GISAH""-database for the years 2005 and 2008; WHO:s ""Global Status Report On Alcohol 1999"", Table 4, for the earlier years - except Russia and Sweden. For Sweden, all data is from Swedish Public Health Institute (http://app.fhi.se/PXwebFHI/database/folkhalsodata/databasetree.asp) from For Russia, data from 1985-1994 is from Nemtsov AV (2000) Estimates of total alcohol consumption in Russia, 1980-1994. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 58(1-2): 133–142"		
	CAVEAT	"Estimating total average alcohol consumtion is very complicated. Much of the alcohol consumed is unregistered (home brewed, illegal etc). In general, in countries with high GDP per Capita, the registered alcohol sales make up a larger part of total consumption than in countries with low GDP per Capita. It is thus especially difficult to estimate total consumption for low-income countries. The data here is based on estimations made by a team of experts at WHO. Since the data come from two different studies from different years, we advice caution when looking at change over time. Note also that the average consumption does not inform about how many in the population have alcohol problems - a country with a low average can have a large part of the population who abstain from alcohol completely, while there are other groups with high-risk consumption; and a country with high average can have a large part of the population who drink regularly but not at risk levels."		
	Link to references	Link to GISAH (data for 2005 and 2008): http://apps.who.int/ghodata/?theme=GISAH		
		"Link to WHO:s alcohol publications, including the Global Status Report On Alcohol 1999 (data for earlier years, except Russia and Sweden): http://www.who.int/substance_abuse/publications/alcohol/en/index.html"		
				
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		3/5/12