For the year 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) recently published the 2019 ranking of African countries that consume the most alcohol per capita.
In this ranking, we find two countries of Central Africa namely Gabon and Cameroon who occupy the lead in this ranking respectively in 1st and 2nd place. The Federal Republic of Nigeria is in third place.
The list of African countries that consume the most alcohol per capita according to WHO:
- Gabon 9.1
- Cameroon 9.00
- Nigeria 8.9
- Uganda 8.33
- South Africa 7.77
- Rwanda 7.12
- Congo Kinshasa 6.32
- Angola 6.20
- Congo Brazzaville 6.20
- Ivory Coast 5.98
- Equatorial Guinea 5.73
- Sierra Leone 5.64
- Swaziland 5.05
- São Tomé & P. 4.42
- Seychelles 4.33
- Burkina Faso 4.29
- Botswana 3.99
- Zimbabwe 3.85
- Cape Verde 3.25
- Liberia 3.07
- Lesotho 2.92
- Zambia 2.75
- Maurice 2.65
- Gambia 2.44
- Burundi 2.41
- Guinea Bissau 2.28
- Ghana 1.84
- Tanzania 1.75
- Central African Republic 1.73
- Kenya 1.73
- Sudan 1.73
- Malawi 1.44
- Tunisia 1.26
- Benin 1.18
- Djibouti 1.13
- Togo 1.13
- Mozambique 1.10
- Madagascar 0.92
- Ethiopia 0.69
- Mali 0.62
- Eritrea 0.58
- Chad 0.46
- Morocco 0.45
- Senegal 0.23
- Egypt 0.20
- Guinea 0.20
- Comoros 0.14
- Algeria 0.11
- Niger 0.10