Excessive consumption of alcohol is a common risk factor in the rising death toll among men between the ages of 15 to 59 worldwide.

Worldwide, 3.3 million deaths are linked to alcohol per year. Nearly 7.6 percent of men, and 4 percent of women die from alcohol related causes.

According to a report by the national Alcohol-Free Mongolia network, 39.7 percent of men and  15.15 percent of women in Mongolia have excessive drinking habits.

There are 106 business that have been granted permission to manufacture alcoholic beverages in Mongolia, including 11 companies producing alcohol, 66 companies specializing in vodka, 10 making wine, and 19 companies producing beer.

The number of the nation's alcoholic beverage manufacturers is three times less than the number of manufacturers in 2004. But the volume of alcoholic beverages produced is still excessive.  In the past five years, Mongolia has imported 75.6 million liters of alcoholic beverages from foreign countries for the domestic market.

There is boom in alcohol sale aside from alcoholic beverage manufacturing and import.

In Ulaanbaatar alone, it is estimated that there are 4,034 restaurants, 579 cafes, 568 karaoke venues, and 941 pubs with permits to sell alcoholic beverages. The average Mongolian consumption of "pure alcohol" is 50 liters per person each year, while the city has 6,000 places serving alcoholic beverages.

Worldwide, adults consume an annual average of 10  liters of alcohol from beer, wine and spirits.