Wholesalers registered to trade alcohol in the NT provide the Department of Industry, Tourism and Trade with data on the volume of alcohol supplied to licensed retailers by product type (cask wine, bottled wine, fortified wine, cider, standard spirits, pre-mixed spirits, full strength beer, mid strength beer and low strength beer).
The volume of each product supplied is multiplied by its estimated fraction of alcohol content so that the amount of pure alcohol associated with each product type can be compared. The figures presented represent the wholesale supply in litres of Pure Alcohol Content (PAC). Statistics are presented for the NT as a whole; each of the major urban centres (Darwin, Palmerston, Alice Springs, Katherine, Tennant Creek and Nhulunbuy) and for the NT Balance.
An estimate of the apparent per capita consumption of alcohol in the NT is determined by dividing the total alcohol supplied by an estimate of the population likely to be drinking. As the NT is a major centre for tourism, the total population likely to be drinking is derived by adding the estimates of interstate and international tourist numbers to the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ estimates of the NT population aged 15 years and over.
