Legal alcohol consumption in Lithuania rose last year, with adults consuming 12.1 litres of pure alcohol per capita in 2021, up by 0.7 from the year before.
Lithuania’s retailers and caterers sold 3.3 million decaliters of spirits (vodka, whiskey, brandy, etc.) last year, up by 11.8 percent year-on-year, according to data by Statistics Lithuania.
Wine and fermented beverage sales increased by 14.2 percent to 4.7 million decaliters.
Beer sales edged down by 1.3 percent to 21.9 million decaliters.
The country’s production of spirits, as measured in absolute (100 percent) alcohol, grew by 15.2 percent last year compared to 2020, to 0.967 million decaliters.
The production of grape wine and vermouth increased by 9.1 percent to 0.749 million decaliters and the production of fermented beverages went up by 9.3 percent to 4.6 million decaliters.
Beer production rose by 5 percent to 33.6 million decaliters.
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