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                | DAVID ADELMAN |

               drink beer to supplement my
               bones with vitamin D and pre-
               vent bone degeneration. Saying
               that makes me feel I’m making
           I ealthy lifestyle choice every
               a h
           time I pop a bottle. I could be, at least
           according to the International Journal
           of Endocrinology that had published
           a study on the health promise of
           beer (you can also check our previous
           infographic that matched beer against
           wine for health benefits).

           But here’s the better news—beer can
           be dirt cheap in some corners of the
           planet. If you’re traveling and you en-
           joy a couple bottles of beer (and some
           more) after a day’s tour, our infograph-
           ic will help you find the country where
           you can get really cheap “vitamin D
           shots”.

           It doesn’t matter if you’re going to
           Central/Eastern Europe or Southeast
          Asia; both regions can get you drunk
           really cheap. Vietnam and Ukraine are
           the hands-down winners with beer
           at fifty-nine cents per bottle. Other
           beer-friendly countries include: Cam-
           bodia, Czech Republic, China, Serbia,
           and Panama.
           On the other hand, if you’re a heavy
           drinker, better avoid the Middle
           East. Not because alcohol is officially
           banned in many countries there (you
           can drink in designated places), but
           they have the priciest beers in the
           world. In Iran one beer is equivalent to
          13 bottles in Ukraine!

          The infographic also calculated which
           countries pay most and least for beer
           every year based on consumption and
           beer price. If you drink much you pay
           much, right? Germans are the third
           heaviest beer drinkers in the world.
          As expected they’re one of the biggest
           spenders, too, shelling out $235 per
           year on the alcohol.
           But just southeast of Germany, in Ro-
           mania, things are different in Romania.
           Talk about enjoying both worlds–Ro-
           manians are one of the heaviest beer
           drinkers; they’re also one of the least
           spenders on the alcohol. But we en-
           courage you to drink moderately… and
           pay moderately, too.


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