Alcohol consumption

Alcohol sold legally in a year, converted into litres of pure (100 %) alcohol and divided by the population. Pure alcohol is the ethanol itself: a litre of a 40 % drink counts as 0.4 l here, which is what allows beer, wine and spirits to be added into one figure. The leading series divides by every resident, children included; the second table is the same quantity per resident aged 15 and over, the base international bodies use.

The published series begins in 2000; there is no earlier data here, and the years before it are not part of it.

Milestones

Per resident aged 15 and over

2000: 9.7 l → 2025: 10.2 l

Method and caveats

Statistics Lithuania’s indicator database: legal alcohol consumption per resident (table S3R278) and the same figure per resident aged 15 and over (table S3R279), both measured in litres of pure alcohol. Annual and gap-free from 2000 to 2025. Only alcohol sold legally is counted: smuggled drink, home distilling and drink brought in from other countries are not in this figure and are not estimated into it — neither the source nor this page publishes such an estimate. For some years the source serves many decimal places; here they are rounded to one, which is the precision the table itself prints. The ratio between the two series matches the share of the population aged 15 and over: it is 0.804 in 2000 and 0.853 in 2025, against a share of 0.798 and 0.859 in those years computed from Eurostat’s population figures. The World Health Organization publishes a comparable figure for ages 15 and over: in 2019–2024 its numbers sit about half a litre from these, but in earlier years they differ by whole litres and its 2014 reading is an evident break in its own series, so it corroborates the picture rather than the number.