World Health Organization
Governance for public health across the health and allied sectors: a report to guide country-level institutional capacity for essential public health functions underpinning multisectoral approaches
Report
15 Nov 2025
This report provides an assessment of taxes applied to alcoholic beverages at the global level. It qualitatively compares their design and provides estimates of standardized metrics to compare tax levels between countries, for the first time at the global level. The assessment is based on a new database compiled by WHO which provides standardized indicators of price and tax level for beer and spirits and information on tax policy for beer, spirits and wine.