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17. 16. 15 or younger. No regulation/no age set. The legal drinking age is the minimum age at which a person can legally consume alcoholic beverages. The minimum age alcohol can be legally consumed can be different from the age when it can be purchased in some countries.
This is a decrease from the 5.7 litres in 2010. Distilled alcoholic beverages are the most consumed, followed by beer and wines. The regions with the highest consumption are the WHO European Region (9.2 litres) and the Region of the Americas (7.5 litres). Recorded annual consumption of pure alcohol (litres) per person 15 years of age and over.
Alcohol in the United Kingdom is legal to buy, sell and consume. Consumption rates within the country are high among the average of OECD nations however average among European countries but consistently ranks highest on binge drinking culture. [1][2] An estimated 29 million people in the United Kingdom drank alcohol in 2017.
The rate of teenagers drinking alcohol in Germany is one of the highest in both Europe [7] and the world. [8] Due to the low taxation on alcohol, low drinking age and lax regulations regarding availability, as well as a supposed social trivialization of the risks and harmfulness of alcohol in the country, Germany has been referred to as a ...
The guidelines give drink amounts in a variety of formats, such as standard drinks, fluid ounces, or milliliters, but have been converted to grams of ethanol for ease of comparison. The daily limits range from 10-30 g per day for men and 10-24 g per day for women. Weekly limits range from 27-252 g/week for men and 27-168 g/week for women.
Beer consumption per capita by country (2018) ≥ 125 litres. 100–125 litres. 75–100 litres. 50–75 litres. < 50 litres. 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.
Alcohol preferences in Europe vary from country to country between beer, wine or spirits. [6] These preferences are traditionally associated with certain regions. Hence, the Central European pattern of alcohol consumption is associated with beer-drinking, the Mediterranean pattern with wine-drinking and the Eastern or Northern European pattern ...
Health risks. 7% of the deaths in France of people aged 15 years and over are attributable to alcohol. It kills 41,000 people each year. [3] Around 580,000 hospitalizations due to alcohol take place in France each year. The estimated cost of these hospitalizations is 2.64 billion euros. In 2022, 22% of adults had alcohol consumption above ...