(Mashable) - The average person who is 15 or older, globally, drinks 26.2 cups of pure alcohol in a given year, according to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO). That equates to a little less than half an ounce of pure alcohol each day.

The highest consumption levels continue to be found in the developed world, the report states, noting in particular in the WHO European Region (including countries like Austria, Germany, Russia and the UK) and the WHO Region of the Americas (including all of the countries in North, Central and South America).

The countries that consume the most of it, per the WHO's 2014 report, vary widely. Their habits can be attributed to a number of factors, including sociodemographic, rates of abstention, level of economic development, culture (i.e., if a country is overwhelmingly Muslim) and the preferred beverage types (vodka versus, say, sangria).

The report states that "intermediate levels of consumption" are found in the WHO Western Pacific Region, which stretches from China in the north and west to New Zealand in the south and French Polynesia in the east, and the WHO African Region, which includes the majority of central and southern Africa.