For over 7,000 years, beer has been a part of people’s lives through the good times and the bad and although fewer people have been able to grab a beer at their favourite bar or restaurant these days due to the global pandemic, the desire for suds continues to flourish.

Expensivity recently revealed their World Beer Index which compares the average price of a bottle of beer across 58 countries all on one detailed map. Additionally, they have also indicated which countries spend the most on beer per capita, and just how much beer people really drink based on calculations researchers found on the average price of a typical bottle of beer (330ml).

In Qatar, for example, patrons will have to spend $11.26 for a single beer, mainly since in 2019, the country introduced a 100 percent excise tax on top of the previous sales price of all alcohol imports.

On the other end of the spectrum, South Africa came in with the lowest average beer price at $1.68 per bottle.

When it comes to which countries spend the most on beer, Germany comes out on top with nearly $2,000 of expenditures per capita. Germany is also known to follow the Reinheitsgebot method of brewing – centuries-old purity laws that broadly state that beer may contain only three ingredients: water, barley and hops.

Second to fall behind Germany is Poland, which spends $1,738 per capita, while the U.S. ranks eighth in the world for the highest spending on beer per capita at $1,554.

When it comes to how much each country drinks per annum, the Czech Republic emerges on top with 468 beers on average in a year— approx. 1.3 beers per day. Spain and Germany follow with 417 and 411 beers, respectively.

Research found that people living in Haiti only drink about four beers per year mainly due to 97 percent of alcohol consumption in the nation coming from spirits such as rum.

Graphics courtesy of Expensivity