Daily Alcohol Consumption in Europe

Which countries have the highest share of daily drinkers in Europe?

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We’ve looked at the alcohol consumption in Europe in detail before. On this map, we’re going to look at the group of people that consume alcohol every day.

Consuming alcohol every day, seems to be more common as one goes further south in Europe. Portugal has by far the highest share of daily alcohol consumers, 21.4%. In other Mediterranean countries like Spain (13.5%), Italy (12.4%), France (10.4%) and Croatia (10.4%) there is also a relatively high share of the population that consumes alcohol every day. Belgium (10.1%) and Denmark (10.0%) are the only countries outside of the southern half of Europe where 10% or more consume alcohol every day.

Turkey (0.5%) and Lithuania (0.8%) are the only countries in Europe where less than 1% of adults consume alcohol every day. In most of the Nordic and Baltic countries, that percentage is also very low.

It’s interesting to overlay this map with a map of alcohol related deaths. Latvia and Poland might have some of the lowest shares of daily alcohol consumers, but they also have some of the highest alcohol related death rates. The opposite is the case in a lot of southern European countries.

Data for this map comes from Eurostat.