Distillers Country guides / Togo
Togo
A one-page guide to Togo for the spirits trade: the country, its people, its economy and how it drinks.
At a glance
- Capital
- Lome
- Official languages
- French
- Currency
- West African CFA franc (XOF)
- Time zone
- UTC+0 (GMT)
- Area
- 56,785 km²
People
- Population
- 8.7 million (2025)
- Population growth
- 2.2% a year
- Living in towns and cities
- 44.4%
- Aged under 15
- 40.4%
- Aged 65 and over
- 3.5%
- Life expectancy
- 62.9 years
Economy
- GDP
- US$11.9 billion (2025)
- GDP per person
- US$1,371 (2025)
- Economic growth
- 6.3% (2025)
- Inflation
- 0.4% (2025)
Climate
Tropical: about 23 C on the coast rising to about 30 C in the drier, savanna-type north.
Alcohol
- Alcohol is
- Legal
- Legal drinking age
- 20 for spirits; 18 for beer, wine and cider (Ordinance 34 of 1967, per Wikipedia)
- Alcohol per adult a year
- 1.4 litres of pure alcohol (2022)
Sources: World Bank (population, economy and demographics), WHO Global Health Observatory (alcohol per adult and drinking mix); Wikipedia - Togo (basics, climate); IMF DataMapper WEO (GDP, population, growth, inflation; retrieved 26 Oct 2026); UN Comtrade (HS 2208); WHO Global Health Observatory; Wikipedia - Legal drinking age; Sagaci Research: Spirits market in Togo. Figures are the latest each source publishes; the year is shown beside each one.