Citizens' consumption of tobacco and alcohol is doing well for the Treasury, which received a total of over 383 million kroner in taxes during 2025. This is shown by two fresh statistics from Statistics Greenland.
Looking at tobacco products, a good 89 tons of tobacco products were imported into Greenland during 2025. Two years earlier, the amount was 81.8 tons.
The many tons correspond to everyone over 14 years of age being able to smoke 5.4 cigarettes a day all year round in 2025.
Significant source of income
Statistics Greenland has made further calculations illustrating the spread of the highly harmful and carcinogenic cigarettes. If one assumes a daily consumption of 20 smokes, this corresponds to 27 percent of the population being addicted to tobacco.
Although tobacco is heavily taxed, it has apparently not significantly limited consumption. The tax on tobacco is a significant source of income for the Treasury, which received 175.6 million kroner on this account – an increase of almost four percent compared to the previous year.
From the table below, you can see that the import of snus/slurries etc. has almost doubled.
It is not only tobacco consumption that has increased. The same applies to alcohol consumption.
In 2025, 374,000 litres of pure alcohol in beverages were imported and produced. An increase of 11,000 litres, which corresponds to 2.9 percent.
The development may seem alarming at first glance, but if you look at alcohol consumption over the past 30 years, it has decreased by 27.7 percent.
Behind the figures for types of beverages that contain alcohol, there are some significant fluctuations. Thus, the consumption of beer and spirits increased, while wine fell from 508,600 litres to 433,700 litres. Spirit products increased by almost 10,000 litres, while beer consumption increased by 440,000 litres.
The tax on alcohol secured the Danish Treasury a tax revenue of just over 208 million kroner in 2025, according to the figures.
