Top 20 Beer Drinking Nations

How you answer the question of ranking the Top 20 Beer Drinking Nations has a lot to do with how you define the question, of course. So here are a couple of ways of looking at it, using the latest figures I know about. If you know where more current figures may be found, please let me know. Thanks.

 
Top 20 Beer Drinking Nations

Per Capita *

1.		Czech Republic
2.		Ireland
3.		Germany
4.		Australia
5.		Austria
6.		United Kingdom
7.		Belgium
8.		Denmark
9.		Finland
10.		Luxembourg
11.		Slovakia
12.		Spain
13.		United States
14.		Croatia
15.		Netherlands
16.		New Zealand
17.		Hungary
18.		Poland
19.		Canada
20.		Portugal

 
* Statistics for calendar year 2004, from a Kirin Press Release published December 15, 2005.
 
 

 
 
Top 20 Beer Drinking Nations

Per Total Consumption *

1.		China
2.		United States
3.		Germany
4.		Brazil
5.		Russia
6.		Japan
7.		United Kingdom
8.		Mexico
9.		Spain
10.		Poland
11.		South Africa
12.		Canada
13.		France
14.		South Korea
15.		Czech Republic
16.		Ukraine
17.		Italy
18.		Australia
19.		Colombia
20.		Thailand

* Statistics for calendar year 2004, from a Kirin Press Release published December 15, 2005.
 

 
Top 20 Alcohol Drinking Nations

Per Total Consumption *
 
This list refers to total alcohol consumption, not just beer, wine or spirits but all of them combined.

1.		Luxembourg
2.		Ireland
3.		Hungary
4.		Moldova
5.		Czech Republic
6.		Saint Pierre and Miquelon
7.		Croatia
8.		Greenland
9.		Germany
10.		British Virgin Islands
11.		United Kingdom
12.		Spain
13.		Netherlands Antilles
14.		Portugal
15.		Cyprus
16.		Saint Lucia
17.		France
18.		Bermuda
19.		Austria
20.		Denmark

* Statistics for calendar year 2003 and 2005, from World Health Organization statistics as displayed on Wikipedia.