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Worldwide consumption in 2019 was equal to 5.5 litres of pure alcohol consumed per person aged 15 years or older. [6] This is a decrease from the 5.7 litres in 2010. Distilled alcoholic beverages are the most consumed, followed by beer and wines .
As Gen-Z drinks less, other age groups follow suit. The most recent National Survey on Drug Use and Health found less than two-thirds of Americans drank alcohol at least once in 2022. According to ...
This is a list of countries ordered by annual per capita consumption of beer. Information not provided for some countries is not given in the available sources. Note: The row number column is fixed. So you can choose what column to rank by clicking its header to sort it. * indicates "Beer in COUNTRY or TERRITORY" links.
A 2023 systematic review estimated the societal costs of alcohol use to be around 2.6% of the GDP. [113] Many emergency room visits involve alcohol use. [20] Alcohol availability and consumption rates and alcohol rates are positively associated with nuisance, loitering, panhandling, and disorderly conduct in public space. [114]
Out of the 2.6 million fatalities related to alcohol consumption, 1.6 million were from noncommunicable diseases, including 474,000 deaths from cardiovascular diseases and 401,000 from cancer, the ...
Alcohol consumption is a cause of various forms of cancer, most commonly bowel cancer and cancers of the mouth and throat, liver, oesophagus and breast, according to a German government-funded ...
In 2008 the U.S Surgeon General estimated that around 5,000 Americans aged under 21 die each year from alcohol-related injuries involving underage drinking. [29] Rates of binge drinking in women have been increasing; high risk drinking puts these women at increased risk of the negative long-term effects of alcohol consumption. [30]
“Ideally, alcohol consumption should be minimized altogether, or at least limited to infrequent, moderate occasions.” Humphreys said there are other issues to consider, too.