What is the drinking age in the United States?
21+
Minimum age to buy alcohol: 21.
The United States is one of 22 countries classified “21+” for the drinking age — 11% of the 192 with data.
Source
- Taken from
- Wikipedia: Legal drinking age
- Last checked
- 15 September 2026
- How it was classified
- Read directly from the source’s own table, without interpretation.
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- Illegal
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