A report from World Health Organization names the countries which consume the most alcohol per capita annually.
25. Latvia
3.30 gal./person
24. Finland
3.31 gal./person
23. Germany
3.38 gal./person
22. Luxembourg
3.44 gal./person
21. Austria
3.50 gal./person
20. Netherlands
3.50 gal./person
19. Slovakia
3.52 gal./person
18. Denmark
3.53 gal./person
17. United Kingdom
3.53 gal./person
16. France
3.61 gal./person
15. Ireland
3.81 gal./person
14. Portugal
3.84 gal./person
13. South Korea
3.91 gal./person
12. Lithuania
3.97 gal./person
11. Croatia
3.99 gal./person
10. Belarus
4.00 gal./person
9. Slovenia
4.01 gal./person
8. Romania
4.04 gal./person
7. Andorra
4.09 gal./person
6. Estonia
4.11 gal./person
5. Ukraine
4.12 gal./person
4. Russia
4.16 gal./person
3. Hungary
4.30 gal./person
2. Czech Republic
4.35 gal./person
1. Moldova
4.81 gal./person
56. United States
2.49 gal./person
188. Yemen
0.01 gal./person
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if you average just one pint of beer a day that's 7/8's of a gallon per week. that's about 45.5 gallons in a year. and yes, there are teetotalers and children to balance that out, but there are also much heavier drinkers, too.
bottom line, those numbers don't seem right to me. maybe for a vodka-drinking country like russia (maybe!), but definitely not for a country like germany, for example.