Spain Now Ranks Above Britain In This One Damning Statistic

For years now, the British people have been hit with the drinking culture stick and how they love booze, but now it appears they are certainly not the worst in Europe.

According to a study that was carried out by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) the country that enjoys drinking the most is the Cook Islands, followed by Latvia and then the Czech Republic round off the top three.

The United Kingdom, however, doesn’t even rank inside the top 20 countries that love to drink the most compared to the population of the country with their total litres drunk by one person in a year being a very modest 9.8.

Therefore, there are a number of countries that are perhaps seen as more classy and sophisticated compared to the United Kingdom which rank way ahead of the island nation, including the likes of Spain, Portugal, Germany and the Republic of Ireland.

Cook Islands top the alcohol consumption charts

Something that is a recurring theme through the list is that three of the top five countries in terms of alcohol consumption are in Eastern Europe, which is the home of vodka, suggesting that this will likely play a big role in them consuming so much alcohol every single year.

This list doesn’t specify what kind of alcohol, but Eastern Europe is likely to be mainly spirits and vodka specifically, whereas in mainland Europe countries such as Spain and Portugal could be more wine given the more cultured approach to life many have.

Spain above the likes of UK and Germany

This list will likely be surprising to a lot of people due to the fact that no big nations occupy the top two spots and much smaller nations such as the Cook Islands, Antigua & Barbuda, and Bulgaria are ranked way ahead of other more popular countries such as Spain, Germany and Portugal.

Any country that ranks highly on this list certainly shouldn’t be celebrating but ore worried by how widely accepted drinking is in such large quantities and celebrate dif people are able to consume a lot of alcohol in one sitting and evening.