Map of world alcohol consumption
The biggest boozers are found in Europe and in the former Soviet states. Moldovans are the most bibulous, getting through 18.2 litres each, nearly 2 litres more than the Czechs in second place. Moonshine or 'unrecorded' home-brewed liquor accounts for almost 30% of the world's drinking.
World Health Organisation estimates that alcohol results in 2.5m deaths a year, with Russia and its former satellite states accounting for one in five male deaths caused by drink.
http://img576.imageshack.us/img576/4512/alc2.gif
http://www.economist.com/blogs/daily...ol_consumption