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This interactive map shows the annual average alcohol consumption of alcohol, expressed per person aged 15 years or older. To account for the differences in alcohol content of different alcoholic drinks (e.g., beer, wine, spirits), this is reported in liters of pure alcohol per year.
Access the source dataset in Data Explorer. Alcohol consumption is defined as annual sales of pure alcohol in litres per person aged 15 years and older.
20 maj 2024 · Explore the data and charts on the total amount of alcohol consumed per person in liters of pure alcohol, adjusted for tourist consumption, from 2000 to 2019. The data is based on multiple sources compiled by World Bank and World Health Organization.
Spirits consumption per person. Recorded APC is defined as the recorded amount of alcohol consumed per capita (15+ years) over a calendar year in a country, in litres of pure alcohol. The indicator only takes into account the consumption which is recorded from production, import, export, and sales data often via taxation.
One in twelve persons in the EU reported drinking alcohol on a daily basis. In 2019, 8.4 % of the EU population aged 15 and over reported having an alcoholic drink every day, compared to 28.8 % of weekly alcohol consumers and 22.8 % of monthly alcohol consumers (see Table 1).
21 cze 2024 · Per capita alcohol consumption is widely accepted as the best possible indicator of alcohol exposure in populations and the key indicator for estimation of alcohol-attributable disease burden and alcohol-attributable deaths.
The total alcohol per capita consumption (APC) comprises both the recorded and the unrecorded APC, which together provide a more accurate estimate of the level of alcohol consumption in a country, and as a result, portray trends of alcohol consumption in the adult population (15 years of age and older) in a more precise way.
