Romania drinks more alcohol per person than any other country, followed by Georgia and Latvia, according to the most recent internationally comparable data, which draws on World Health Organization figures. The sources reviewed contain no country-by-country count of alcohol consumed in 2026 so far; the newest full dataset is a three-year average labeled 2022 that was retrieved from the WHO's Global Health Observatory this year.

The ranking, published by The Facts Institute and updated on August 31, measures average annual recorded consumption per person aged 15 and older in liters of pure alcohol. On that measure, the ten heaviest-drinking countries are:

Lithuania, 12.2 liters

Bulgaria, 11.5 liters

Belarus, Saint Lucia and Seychelles follow, tied at 11.4 liters each, according to the WHO figures in the Facts Institute table. World Population Review, which also treats 2022 as the most recent data available as of 2026, reports the same leaders: Romania at 17.1 liters, then Georgia at 15.5, Latvia at 14.7, Moldova at 14.1 and Czechia at 13.7. It says Lithuania, Poland, Bulgaria, Belarus, Hungary and Slovakia all reported annual consumption above 11 liters per person.

The gap between Romania and the global picture is wide. The Facts Institute noted that consumption above 14 liters of pure alcohol per person per year is roughly equivalent........

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