Spirit consumption in Norway is on the rise. Statistics Norway, the country’s state statistics agency, yesterday released figures showing an increase in the amount of spirits drunk by Norwegians.
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The registered consumption of spirits rose in the third quarter by 22.3% year-on-year, to 477,000 litres. Total spirit consumption for the nine-month period of January-September 2003 increased to 946,000 litres up by 14.6% year-on-year.
According to the statistics, each Norwegian citizen over the age of 14 consumed 4.36 litres of pure alcohol during the first nine months of this year, an increase of 3.8% on the same period last year.
