List of countries by beer consumption per capita
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This is a list of countries ordered by annual per capita
consumption of beer
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Per capita
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consumption of beer
Beer
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Rank | Country | Consumption (litre Litre pic|200px|right|thumb|One litre is equivalent to this cubeEach side is 10 cm1 litre water = 1 kilogram water The litre is a metric system unit of volume equal to 1 cubic decimetre , to 1,000 cubic centimetres , and to 1/1,000 cubic metre... s) |
2003–2004 change (633 mL bottles) |
Total national consumption (106 L)[B] |
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1 | 158.6 | −3.2 | 1,878 | |
2 | 131.1 | −7.1 | 521 | |
3 | 110 | −3.2 | 9,555 | |
4 | 108.3 | −3.6 | 855 | |
5 | 104.7 | −7.6 | 1,853 (available) | |
6 | 99.0 | −3.6 | 5,920 | |
7 | 95 | −2.7 | 2,670 | |
8 | 89.9 | −9.8 | 486 | |
9 | 85.0 | 11.7 | 437 | |
10 | 84.4 | −0.5 | 39 | |
11 | 84.1 | −8.5 | 456 | |
12 | 83.8 | 0.9 | 3,376 | |
13 | 81.6 | −0.3 | 23,974 | |
14 | 81.2 | −4.3 | 365 | |
15 | 81.0 | −4.7 | 970 | |
16 | 80 | |||
17 | 77 | −2.7 | 1,269 | |
18 | 76 | |||
19 | 75.5 | −1.9 | 313 | |
20 | 75.3 | 2.8 | 755 | |
21 | 68.3 | −0.2 | 2,183 | |
22 | 68 | |||
23 | 67 | 4.4 | 448 | |
24 | 59.6 | 3.6 | 627 | |
25 | 60 | 3.0 | 2,530 | |
26 | 58.9 | 9.3 | 8,450 | |
27 | 80.0 | 0.0 | 1,951 | |
28 | 58.2 | 1.4 | 1,302 | |
29 | 58.1 | 1.7 | 45 | |
30 | 57.3 | −2.2 | 426 | |
31 | 55.8 | −0.9 | 76 | |
32 | 55.5 | 8.7 | 249 | |
33 | 51.8 | 0.6 | 5,435 | |
34 | 51.5 | −3.9 | 464 | |
35 | 51.3 | 0.6 | 6,549 | |
36 | 47.6 | 1.3 | 10,700 | |
37 | 43.2 | 1,732 | ||
38 | 40 | |||
39 | 38.5 | 0.0 | 1,897 | |
40 | 36.8 | 0.3 | 1,658 | |
41 | 30 | 3.8 | 28,640 | |
42 | 19 | |||
43 | 12 | |||
44 | 11 | |||
45 | 8.4 | |||
46 | 6.0 | |||
47 | 2.45 | 50 | ||
48 | 2.33 | 1,400 |