Distillers Argentina
A one-page guide to Argentina for the spirits trade: the country, its people, its economy and how it drinks.
At a glance
- Capital
- Buenos Aires
- Official languages
- Spanish
- Currency
- Argentine peso (ARS)
- Time zone
- UTC-3
- Area
- 2,780,400 km²
People
- Population
- 45.9 million (2025)
- Population growth
- 0.3% a year
- Living in towns and cities
- 92.4%
- Aged under 15
- 21.0%
- Aged 65 and over
- 12.6%
- Life expectancy
- 77.5 years
Economy
- GDP
- US$683.1 billion (2025)
- GDP per person
- US$14,898 (2025)
- Economic growth
- 4.37% (2025)
- Inflation
- 219.88% (2024)
Climate
Ranges from subtropical in the north to polar in the far south; mean annual temperature from about 5 C (far south) to 25 C (north), rainfall from about 150 mm (Patagonia) to over 2,000 mm (northeast, western Patagonia).
Alcohol
- Alcohol is
- Legal
- Legal drinking age
- Purchase age 18; rarely enforced per the page
- Alcohol per adult a year
- 7.1 litres of pure alcohol (2024)
- Traditional drinks
- Fernet with cola (fernet con coca) - fernet is hugely popular, especially in Cordoba
Sources: World Bank (population, economy and demographics), WHO Global Health Observatory (alcohol per adult and drinking mix); World Bank API (population, area, GDP, growth, inflation); WHO GHO OData (SA_0000001688); UN Comtrade public preview API (HS 2208); Wikipedia: Argentina; Wikipedia: Legal drinking age; Wikipedia: Fernet; Forbes Argentina - fernet market (2017); Argentine Ministry of Agriculture - fernet report (2011). Figures are the latest each source publishes; the year is shown beside each one.