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Legal Drinking Ages
Around the world drinking ages vary, some countries even have no minimum age!
If you are going traveling and want to know if your old enough to drink, or just want to find out which nations to be jealous of, see the table below.
| No Minimum | Age 16 | Age 18 | Age 19 | Age 20 | Age 21 |
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| Armenia | Antigua | Argentina | South Korea |
Japan | (UNITED STATES) |
| Azerbaijan | Austria | Barbados | Iceland | ||
| China | Belgium | Bermuda | |||
| Fiji | France | British Virgin Islands |
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| Nigeria | Germany* | Chile | |||
| Poland* | Greece* | Czech Republic |
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| Portugal | Italy | Estonia | |||
| Soviet Georgia |
Netherlands* | Hong Kong |
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| Thailand | Norway* | Indonesia | |||
| Viet Nam |
Poland | Jamaica | |||
| Spain* | Israel | ||||
| Turkey* | Latvia | ||||
| Switzerland* | Luxembourg (age 17 with an adult) |
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| Mexico | |||||
| Mongolia | |||||
| Phillipines | |||||
| Russia | |||||
| Slovak Republic |
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| South Africa |
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| United Kingdom (age 16 in restaurants) |
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| Uruguay | |||||
| Australia | |||||
| Bahamas | |||||
| Brazil | |||||
| Canada (age 19 in some provinces) |
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| Colombia | |||||
| Denmark | |||||
| Finland* | |||||
| Hungary | |||||
| Ireland | |||||
| Jamaica | |||||
| Lithuania | |||||
| Malaysia | |||||
| Moldova | |||||
| New Zealand* |
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| Peru | |||||
| Puerto Rico |
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| St. Maarten |
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| Slovenia | |||||
| Sweden* | |||||
| Turkmenistan | |||||
| Ukraine | |||||
| Venezuela |
* with exceptions