The above data were retrieved from the WHO-HFA database. For some countries the WHO-HFA also has data from 1960 onwards, but the data respresented here are from 1970 onwards.
The figures are calculated from official statistics on local production, sales, import and export, taking into account stocks and home production, whenever possible. To estimate the amount of pure alcohol all beer was assumed to contain 5% pure alcohol, all wine 12%, and all spirits 40%.
The Alcohol and Drugs unit of the WHO Regional Office for Europe collected and calculated the data using mainly the following three sources:
- World Drink Trends regularly published by Produktschap voor Gedistilleerde Dranken (Schiedam, Netherlands);
- the Food and Agriculture Organization; and
- data reported directly by the WHO national counterparts.
Additional sources, from several different countries, were also used.
| The figures represent the estimated amount of pure ethanol in spirits, wine, beer and other alcoholic drinks consumed by those aged over 15 per country during each calendar year.
If a line is missing in the figure, no data were available for that period.
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Literature and data sources
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