Report of the World Health Organization in 2011 recorded that the cause of more than 2.5 million deaths each year is alcohol. "Almost 4% of all deaths occurring in the world," the report says, "caused by alcohol. This is more than the number of deaths is caused by HIV / AIDS, violence, or tuberculosis. "Given the government released official data, studies of the World Health Organization, as well as data received from other sources, the report made to the schedule of alcohol 193 organizations of member countries of WHO. According to the World Health Organization, the consumption of alcoholic beverages, as a rule, reaches a much higher level in the developed world, and just below that level in countries with a population professing Islam.
The report takes into account the amount of alcohol consumed in various forms (including beer, wine and spirits), but the figures given in the table in terms of average consumption of pure alcohol per year per capita in each country.