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The 10 Countries That Drink the Most Beer Per Person |
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Kirin published its 2024 beer survey in December. It counts every litre drunk in every country. The biggest drinkers per head aren't the Germans, the Irish or the Americans. They're the Czechs — 148.8 litres each, and first every year since 1993. |
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Source: Kirin Holdings, Global Beer Consumption by Country 2024 (released Dec 2025). Litres per person per year. World and China are total volume per head. |
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| What's Surprising |
The Czech Republic drinks 148.8 litres of beer a person a year. That is nearly 300 half-litre glasses each — close to six a week for every man, woman and child. Czechia has led the world every year since 1993, 32 years running, from a country of fewer than 11 million.
The gap is the surprise. Czechia drinks a third more than Lithuania in second, and more than double the United States. The famous beer nations sit lower down. Ireland is 4th, Germany 10th, the United States 29th.
Size buys nothing here. America drinks the second-most beer of any country in total, yet ranks 29th per person at 65.4 litres. Big population, ordinary drinkers. The metric rewards habit, not heft.
| What's Not Surprising |
Every country in the top ten is European. Draw a line from the Baltics through Central Europe to the Alps and Iberia and you have the list — Czechia, Lithuania, Austria, Germany, Croatia, Estonia. Brewing regions with centuries of habit behind them. This part never moves much.
China drinks the most beer of any country — 40.5 billion litres in 2024, a fifth of the world's total. Per person, that is about 29 litres. Total volume follows population. Per head follows culture. The two lists barely overlap.
And the map is shifting. World beer rose just 0.5%. The growth came from India, up 14.6%, plus Russia and Thailand, while Germany and Australia fell. Beer is slowly leaving its old European heartlands for newer, warmer markets.
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148.8 litres What a Czech drinks in a year — the most on Earth, a third more than any other country. Nearly 300 half-litre glasses each. |
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32 years How long Czechia has topped the world in beer per person. Every year since 1993, without a break. |
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65.4 litres The American figure, 29th in the world — less than half a Czech's, though the US drinks the second-most beer of any country in total. |
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10 of 10 Every country in the top ten is European. The first from anywhere else, Panama, ranks 11th. |
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40.5 billion Litres of beer China drank in 2024, a fifth of the world and more than any nation. Per person, only about 29. |
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Kirin publishes its next survey in December, with 2025 numbers. Two things to watch. First, whether Czechia's lead keeps easing — it slipped from 152 litres in 2023 to 149 in 2024. Second, India, up 14.6% and now the fastest-growing beer market on Earth. If the shift east holds, the old European core of this list keeps shrinking. We'll be watching. |
