Where Does the United States Rank Among the World's Biggest Alcohol Consumers?

Americans do like to drink.

We use drinking to help us socialize. It can help you take the edge off and relax. Heck, some of you might wait for 5 p.m. on a Friday so we can head home and start drinking off a particularly stressful week of work.

Plus, with the almost constant bombardment of alcohol advertising and imagery, it's hard to avoid it in our society.

But just how much do Americans drink versus other countries in the world? According to the latest numbers we're not even near the top.

The folks from the Daily Viz used data collected from a 2000 to 2016 survey by the World Health Organization to come up with their numbers. Looks like Europe's got the United States throughly beat. In fact, all top ten of the the world's biggest drinking countries are from Europe.

Where is the U.S.? Looks like we managed to come in at #41.

Belarus is the world's biggest consumer of booze. According to the findings, it's citizens drink a staggering average of 3.8 gallons of alcohol every year.