Chart of Legal Drinking Ages
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Chart of Legal Drinking Ages
Every single time I access the net with the words drinking age, it always comes up that even more people are asking about the legal drinking age of this country, of this state, or of this province. Tales about them vacationing are often seen, it is a usual occurrence even. It doesn’t even seem to matter that most questions deal with them being underage and wanting to drink. Seriously, is drinking all they have in their minds? Anyway, I’m not here to rant about that so let us continue with our present topic. As there is a different legal drinking age set for each country or state (sometimes even just the region), there is much confusion and even curiosity over the fact. It would have been nice and convenient if the first of the search results to come up after clicking on Enter or submitting your query is a chart of legal drinking ages. A chart will be most helpful and will hopefully lessen the worry of parents (and the crazy excitement of their underage children) about the legalities of drinking in other countries or states (especially for students who are planning on going on a vacation or on foreign exchange student trips).

A random question though is: Why are there many differing ideas on proper times and most optimal and dependable age for liquor anyway? The most dependable answer to this it is due to many aspects: religion, tradition, culture, belief, and even the natural location, climate, and resources. There are actually seven divisions but the chart I reviewed only has six, I had planned not to put it up but I decided against it.
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No Minimum |
16 |
18 |
19 |
20 |
21 |
Illegal |
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Albania Belarus Bosnia and Herzegovina Cambodia Cuba Denmark Finland Georgia Ghana Gibraltar Greece Indonesia Israel Kenya Macau Malaysia Malta Moldova (beer) Montenegro Morocco Myanmar Netherlands New Zealand Norway Papua New Guinea Romania Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Tunisia Vietnam |
Austria (varying per drink) Belgium (varying per drink) Botswana Cyprus (although some say it is 12) Eritrea Ethiopia France Germany Haiti Italy Liechtenstein (varying per drink) Luxembourg Mauritius Moldova (other kinds) Palau Portugal Russia Samoa Spain Switzerland (varies) United Kingdom Zambia Zimbabwe
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Algeria American Samoa Antigua Argentina Australia Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Barbados Belize Bermuda Bolivia Brazil Bulgaria Cameroon Canada (Alberta, Manitoba, and Quebec) Cayman Islands Chile Colombia Costa Rica Croatia Czech Republic Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt Estonia Guam Guatemala Hong Kong Hungary India (varies per state) Iraq Ireland Jamaica Jordan Latvia Lebanon Lithuania Macedonia Malawi Mexico Mongolia Namibia Nepal Nicaragua Niger Nigeria North Korea (although some say it is 17) Pakistan Panama People’s Republic of China Peru Philippines Poland Puerto Rico (U.S.) Qatar Singapore South Africa Sri Lanka Sweden Taiwan Thailand Tokelau Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Turkey Turks and Caicos Islands Uganda Ukraine US Virgin Islands (U.S.) Uruguay Vanuatu Venezuela
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Canada (the rest) South Korea |
Iceland Japan Paraguay |
Armenia Fiji Honduras Northern Mariana Islands Oman United Arab Emirates United States |
Bangladesh Brunei Iran Kuwait Libya Saudi Arabia Sudan |












































