Table 7: Heavy drinkers among the adult population
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| Country |
Year |
Total (%) |
Male (%) |
Female (%) |
a : Regional survey
b : Consumption of 40 g or more pure alcohol/day for men and 20 g or more pure alcohol/day for women.
c: Among drinkers only
d: Consumption of more than 40 g pure alcohol/day for men and more than 20 g pure alcohol/day for women.
e: Consumption of 560 g of ethanol a week or more (80 g a day or more).
f: Consumption of five or more standard drinks for males and three or more standard drinks for females on a
typical drinking day.
g: Consumption of more than 0.5 litres of wine daily.
Note: Please refer to individual country profiles for details of references/sources used.
|
| Argentina a,b,c |
2003 |
|
11.5 |
2.0 |
| Australia d |
2001 |
7.0 |
6.7 |
7.2 |
| Austria b,c |
1993 |
|
17.3 |
7.0 |
| Brazil b,c |
2001-2002 |
|
17.8 |
18.2 |
| Bulgaria e |
1997 |
|
18.2 |
0.8 |
| Burkina Faso b |
2003 |
11.6 |
10.0 |
13.2 |
| Chad b |
2003 |
11.0 |
12.8 |
9.5 |
| Colombia c,f |
2001-2002 |
31.8 |
52.4 |
21.0 |
| Costa Rica b,c |
2003 |
|
5.0 |
3.0 |
| Czech Republic (the) b,c |
2002 |
|
25.7 |
12.5 |
| Dominican Republic (the) b |
2003 |
2.1 |
1.1 |
3.1 |
| Ecuador b |
2003 |
4.1 |
7.3 |
1.7 |
| Estonia e |
1997 |
|
9.3 |
0.5 |
| Ethiopia b |
2003 |
9.3 |
8.1 |
10.6 |
| Finland b,c |
2000 |
|
5.8 |
3.4 |
| France b,c |
1999 |
|
16.6 |
7.8 |
| Georgia c,f |
2001-2002 |
27.8 |
50.1 |
10.6 |
| Germany b,c |
2000 |
|
11.2 |
11.3 |
| Ghana b |
2003 |
1.9 |
2.1 |
1.7 |
| Hungary b |
2003 |
12.4 |
16.9 |
9.3 |
| India b |
2003 |
1.4 |
2.4 |
0.4 |
| Israel b,c |
2001 |
|
5.9 |
4.7 |
| Italy g |
2000 |
5.8 |
9.8 |
2.0 |
| Japan b,c |
2001 |
|
22.7 |
4.9 |
| Lao People's Dem. Rep. b |
2003 |
2.7 |
3.8 |
1.8 |
| Mexico c,f |
2000-2001 |
14.2 |
18.1 |
11.6 |
| Namibia b |
2003 |
4.1 |
3.1 |
4.9 |
| Nepal b |
2003 |
3.5 |
3.0 |
4.0 |
| Netherlands (the) b,c |
1999 |
|
10.4 |
11.1 |
| Nigeria b,c |
2003 |
|
27.8 |
36.1 |
| Norway b,c |
1999 |
|
3.0 |
5.2 |
| Paraguay b |
2003 |
3.1 |
5.6 |
1.0 |
| Russian Federation (the) b |
2003 |
2.4 |
3.7 |
1.6 |
| Slovakia b |
2003 |
7.0 |
5.2 |
7.9 |
| South Africa c,f |
1998 |
7.6 |
7.0 |
8.8 |
| Switzerland b,c |
1997 |
|
8.6 |
6.1 |
| Turkey c,f |
2000-2001 |
1.7 |
1.3 |
2.5 |
| Uganda b,c |
2003 |
|
40.1 |
20.3 |
| The United Kingdom c,f |
2000 |
|
39.0 |
42.0 |
| United States of America (the) b,c |
1996 |
|
6.4 |
5.0 |
| Viet Nam |
2003 |
2.9 |
5.7 |
0.6 |
| Zimbabwe |
2003 |
2.7 |
5.8 |
1.0 |
Source: WHO
Global Status Report on Alcohol 2004, p.27
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Table 6: Rate of last year abstainers among the adult population
Table 7: Heavy drinkers among the adult population
Table 8: Heavy episodic drinkers among the adult population
Table 9: Alcohol dependence among adult population
Table 10: Heavy episodic drinkers among youths
Table 11: Heavy episodic drinkers among young adults aged 18-24 years old
Table 13: Relative risks for beneficial alcohol-related health effects for different drinking categories (compared to abstainers)
Table 15: Attributable fractions of acute alcohol-related health effects in the adult general population
Table 16: Global burden of disease in 2000 attributable to alcohol according to major disease categories (DALYs in 000s)
Table 17: Burden of disease in 2000 attributable to tobacco, alcohol and drugs by developing status and sex
Table 18: Characteristics of adult alcohol consumption in different regions of the world 2000 (population weighted averages)
Table 19: Alcohol-related harm in different regions of the world (population weighted averages), DALYs (000s)
Table 20: Selected population alcohol-attributable fractions, by disease category, sex and level of development (% DALYs for each cause) in 2000
Table 21: Standardized mortality rates (per 100 000) for acute and chronic disease and injury, by WHO regional subgroupings (data shown is for most recent year available)
Table 21 [bis]: Social and economic costs of alcohol abuse for selected countries
Figure 3: Population weighted means of the recorded adult per capita consumption in the WHO Regions 1961-1999
Figure 4: Model of alcohol consumption, mediating variables, and short-term and longterm consequences
Figure 5: Global disease burden (in DALYs) in 2001 from alcohol use disorders, by age group and sex
Figure 6: Global deaths in 2001 from alcohol use disorders, by age group and sex
Footnote on the meaning of "adults"
Table 3: Total recorded alcohol per capita consumption (15+)
Table 5: Estimated volume of unrecorded consumption in litres of pure alcohol per capita for population older than 15 for the years after 1995
Case example 1: India
Case example 2: Venezuela
Case example 3: Malaysia
Case example 4: Uganda
Case example 5: Botswana
Case example 6: Ethiopia
Case example 7: Egypt
Case example 8: Ghana
Case example 9: Kenya
Case example 10: United Republic of Tanzania
Case example 1: Botswana
Case example 2: Nepal
Case example 3: Cameroon
Case example 4: India
Case example 5: Malaysia
