Distillers Country guides / Honduras
Honduras
A one-page guide to Honduras for the spirits trade: the country, its people, its economy and how it drinks.
At a glance
- Capital
- Tegucigalpa
- Official languages
- Spanish
- Currency
- Honduran lempira (HNL)
- Time zone
- UTC-6 (CST)
- Area
- 112,492 km²
People
- Population
- 11.0 million (2025)
- Population growth
- 1.7% a year
- Living in towns and cities
- 59.3%
- Aged under 15
- 30.3%
- Aged 65 and over
- 4.5%
- Life expectancy
- 73.0 years
Economy
- GDP
- US$39.6 billion (2025)
- GDP per person
- US$3,598 (2025)
- Economic growth
- 3.75% (2025)
- Inflation
- 4.6% (2025)
Climate
Tropical in the lowlands and temperate in the mountains; the Pacific coast is drier than the Caribbean (no temperatures or season dates on the source page).
Alcohol
- Alcohol is
- Legal
- Legal drinking age
- 18 for on- and off-premise sales of all beverages (WHO 2018 country profile, status 2016: https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/country-profiles/substances-abuse/HND.pdf)
- Alcohol per adult a year
- 3.52 litres of pure alcohol (2022)
- What people drink
- Beer 47%, wine 1%, spirits 52% (2016)
Sources: World Bank (population, economy and demographics), WHO Global Health Observatory (alcohol per adult and drinking mix); Wikipedia - Honduras; WHO country profile HND; Plata - Revista E&N; Yuscaran aguardiente - La Prensa; El Heraldo - Destilería Cerro Azul (3 Sep 2025); El Heraldo - alcohol smuggling and licensed factories (12 Aug 2018). Figures are the latest each source publishes; the year is shown beside each one.