Lithuania's retailers and food services providers sold 2.9 million decaliters of spirits (vodka, whiskey, brandy, etc.) last year, down by 0.1% (4,000 decaliters) year-on-year. Wine and fermented beverage sales declined by 0.2% (6,000 decaliters) to 3.4 million decaliters and beer sales were down by 1.2 percent (262,000 decaliters) to 21.6 million decaliters.
Retail prices of alcoholic drinks grew by 2% on average in 2019, due mostly to an excise tax hike that took effect on March 1, 2019.
The steepest price increases were for Lithuanian-made bitters (6.4%), vodka (6.2%) brandy (4.2%), beer (2.9%), and sparkly grape wine (1.7%). Meanwhile, whisky prices went down by 2.8%.
A total of 0.927 million decaliters of spirited alcoholic beverages were produced in Lithuania last year, turned into absolute (100%) alcohol. Their production volumes went down by 3.7% from 2018.
