Total consumption, top 15

Thousand kiloliters, 2024. The full top-25 table follows.

#	Country	Thousand kl	Share	YoY
1	China	40,534	20.9%	-3.7%
2	United States	22,340	11.5%	-0.5%
3	Brazil	15,304	7.9%	+1.1%
4	Mexico	10,787	5.6%	+5.4%
5	Russia	9,512	4.9%	+9%
6	Germany	7,236	3.7%	-2.2%
7	South Africa	4,586	2.4%	+4.5%
8	Vietnam	4,577	2.4%	+0.6%
9	United Kingdom	4,509	2.3%	+1.7%
10	Spain	4,362	2.2%	-1.3%
11	Japan	4,135	2.1%	-2.7%
12	India	3,444	1.8%	+14.6%
13	Poland	3,344	1.7%	-1.7%
14	Colombia	2,634	1.4%	+3.2%
15	South Korea	2,307	1.2%	+0.7%
16	Italy	2,177	1.1%	+0.9%
17	France	2,100	1.1%	-1%
18	Thailand	1,957	1%	+5.8%
19	Canada	1,822	0.9%	-0.1%
20	Australia	1,736	0.9%	-2.6%
21	Ethiopia	1,729	0.9%	+5.1%
22	Romania	1,714	0.9%	+2%
23	Philippines	1,693	0.9%	+0.3%
24	Ukraine	1,654	0.9%	+3%
25	Czechia	1,562	0.8%	-0.9%

Per-capita consumption, top 15

Liters per person, 2024. Czechia has led every year since 1993.

#	Country	Liters / person
1	Czechia	148.8
2	Lithuania	110.6
3	Austria	104.6
4	Ireland	99
5	Croatia	95.1
6	Estonia	93.2
7	Spain	91.8
8	Slovenia	88.4
9	Romania	87.4
10	Germany	86.9
11	Panama	86.1
12	Mexico	83.4
13	Poland	83.2
14	Bulgaria	81.4
15	Slovakia	81
16	Gabon	80.9
17	Latvia	79.1
18	South Africa	75.2
19	Hungary	74.1
20	Bosnia-Herzegovina	71.4
21	Brazil	70.3
22	Finland	68.7
23	Portugal	66.9
24	United Kingdom	66.3
25	Netherlands	66.2
26	Namibia	66.1
27	Russia	66.1
28	Serbia	65.5
29	United States	65.4
30	Australia	65
31	Puerto Rico	61.8
32	Denmark	60.8
33	Belgium	57.4
34	Norway	55.8
35	Laos	55.2
48	South Korea	44.6
56	Japan	33.7
81	Philippines	14.2
102	India	2.4

Rows below rank 35 are reference entries Kirin reports separately.

Highlights

China ranked first in total consumption for the 22nd consecutive year despite a 3.7% decline.
India grew 14.6% year on year — the fastest growth among the top 25 countries.
The Czech Republic has led per-capita consumption every year since 1993.
The per-capita top five (Czechia, Lithuania, Austria, Ireland, Croatia) was unchanged from 2023.
Asia accounted for 32.6% of global consumption, its 17th consecutive year as the largest region.

Methodology & source

Kirin Holdings has compiled this dataset annually since 1975, covering roughly 170 countries and regions. It is based on questionnaires sent to brewers' associations in major countries, combined with industry statistics including the BarthHaas Report 2024–2025 and GlobalData's Beer Market Data Extract 2025. The survey period is January–December 2024.

Japan's figure combines beer, happo-shu (malt liquor), and 'new genre' non-malt beer, and has been estimated by Jozo Sangyo Shimbunsha since 2020. Kirin revised the prior-year global total from 187.93 to 193.23 million kl, and year-on-year changes use revised figures. Due to rounding, shares may not sum exactly to 100%.

Source: Kirin Holdings — Global Beer Consumption by Country in 2024 (published 2025-12-22; report PDF). Figures cited with attribution; the analysis and prose on this page are OnlyBeer’s own.