Infographic of the Day

well in portugal, the legal drinking age is 16 so…
the deep red is understandable.
lol at russia.

Ah Korea…

As a Brit, I can believe this…

A quick nitpick: you say ‘around the acme of the inebriation spectrum’, but I suspect you mean “APEX” not “ACME”.

ACME is a grocery store, or possibly the generic company that the stupid coyote on road runner always bought crappy stuff from. I don’t know of any usage of teh word outside that.

If you’re going to go out of your way to nitpick about something which you yourself admit to having no knowledge of, you really ought to stop by Google first.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/acme

Unless you’re just trolling, in which case, you may proceed.

-j.

You are so dumb. So, so dumb. For real.

This should be mashed up with the caffeine map to make a 4loco map.

Finland strong!!!

I don’t find this all that disturbing, with the highest being 18.2 liter.

beer (age 16 here) tends to be around 3-5% alc. so you’d have to down about 35 liters of beer per year to get to 1 liter of alc. so thats about 18 Six packs or about 2/3rds of a keg. I’d say that kind of alcohol consumption is normal per year (after all, thats only 96 ml per day (670 ml per week or 2 cans a beer)

now lets go with wine (age 16), sparkling wine (age 16) and alco-pops (used to be 16, but too many kids overdosed so its age 18 now) etc. (so the avg. 14-15°% group)
1 Liter would be 7 Liters of champagne/wine etc. I’d say you’d manage 3 liters of that a year (so roughly 30 bottles (0.7L)) (or a lot more, if you drink wine with meals regularly)

so just with drinks most people don’t really consider “drinking” (least I don’t) you already reached 4 Liters.

and now for the real drinks (everything 40°% up (age 18))

so 1 liter alc = 2.5 L

so just by drinking about 6 bottles of vodka/tequila etc. you already reached the worldwide average of 6.1.

2.5 L = 25 shots I’d estimate that on a good night partying it shouldn’t be hard to reach 10 shots. so 5 nights of partying = 2 liters of alcohol.

lets assume here you actually have friends you don’t mind being seen with, going out at least once a month is a fair assumption.

that means 12 days of partying a year = 4.8 L of alcohol

sum up so far:

beer : 1 Liter
wine etc.: 2 Liters
drinks: 4.8 Liter

that adds up to 7.8 Liter (so this alone already is enough to match north Americas average)

and this does not include the yearly celebrations (birthdays, weddings, funerals, new years, Christmas and every occasion family members you can only stand wasted show up) you’re well on your way to the 12.5 for most European countries

Notice all the funny YouTube videos come from Russia…Hm…

So Europe and Northern Asia are at 12.5 and above?

Challenge accepted.

Acme is correct. Before the word was used as a company name, it meant “the highest point.” See http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/acme

Damn. I put WordNazi tags around that, but they were omitted.

inb4 america’s falling behind comment

hahahahahaaa look at america.. pussies!!

Don’t you have anything better to do?

Wait, I just remembered this is the internet. Carry on.

Oh my, Finland’s been representing well in the last few days. Soon, we will conquer the world. MWAHAHAAkrhm.

I love you.

Greenland!!! WTF? Come on, get in the game!!!

Four/loco maps are illegal in 23 states.

Yes, you are going strong now, but the food prices in Estonia have been going up up and away since the lovely euro came along. Well since before that too, but my point is that soon you will have no where to buy cheap alcohol from. You will have to cut back on it and then your world conquest plans will be ruined! RUINED, I TELL YOU! Muhahahahahahahh!

Greenland is always white in maps

Considering that the strongest drink on your list is vodka/tequila which has an alcoholic content of 35-70% by volume, lets say an average of 50% for a nice even number.

Then you would need to drink 36.4 litres of Vodka to equal the Moldovan level.

All of the above totally estimated but you get the gist of it.

Portugal, represent! BRB, off to my 100th port wine shot of the day.

ne’er a truer word spoken

Shit! I forgot about that! No more over-drinking Viru Valge and throwing up on the bar’s floor and passing out in the bathroom and — wait, maybe this is a good thing? …nah. BLASPHEMY, I say!

this graph-map could also be entitled “pleaces worth visiting”

For all we know greenland is crazy.

Acme also means “the top” as well as apex.

welcome to Britain! let’s get pissed

DAMN YOU WEST CANADA !! CRAPPING MY STYLE !

Sad thing about Russia is that in most places vodka is cheaper than clean water, averaging at 62p (GBP) for 100ml of vodka, or 79p (GBP) for 100ml of drinkable water. Ofc my stats are a little out of date, feel free to correct if anyone knows more up-to-date info.