![]() ![]() In those countries (with the exception of Denmark), the respective share increased with increasing educational attainment. ![]() In all EU Member States, with the exception of Hungary, Malta, Austria, Croatia, Slovenia, Denmark as well as Turkey, the percentage of those who drink alcohol having six or more alcoholic drinks on a single occasion at least once every month was higher among those with upper secondary and post-secondary non-tertiary education than those in lower and higher educational levels. The prevalence of heavy episodic drinking at least monthly was higher among those with upper secondary and post-secondary non-tertiary educationĪt EU level, 22.3 % of those who drink alcohol with upper secondary and post-secondary non-tertiary education reported having an episode of heavy drinking at a frequency of at least once per month, followed by 20.2 % of those with the highest educational attainment and 12.7 % of those with lower secondary education or less - see Figure 2.įigure 2: Prevalence of heavy episodic drinking at least once a month among alcohol drinkers, by level of educational attainment, 2019 More specifically, the largest gaps between men and women were observed in Lithuania (20.8 percentage points difference), Denmark (21.4 percentage points difference), Luxembourg (22.1 percentage points difference) and Romania (35.1 percentage points difference). The pattern was uniform across all EU countries, with evident differences between the recorded proportions for the two sexes. On average, the respective percentage for men was 2.3 times higher than that for women (26.3 % for men and 11.4 % for women). By far, the highest proportion of persons consuming no alcohol was found in Turkey (85.1 %).įigure 1: Prevalence of heavy episodic drinking at least once a month among alcohol drinkers, by sex, 2019Īmong those who drink alcohol, men were more likely than women to report having an episode of heavy drinking at least once a month in 2019. The highest shares of persons consuming no alcoholic beverages (either in the 12 months prior to the survey or never) were mainly found in Croatia (38.3 %) and Italy (34.8 %) while the lowest shares were found in Denmark (9.4 %), Czechia (15.2 %) and Luxembourg (17.2 %). Furthermore, Lithuania, Latvia, Cyprus and Poland, as well as Norway, recorded a share of persons consuming alcohol every month that exceeded 30 % of the population, as opposed to the Netherlands, Portugal, Italy, Belgium, Spain and Malta, where this share accounted for less than one fifth of the population. Over 40 % of the population in Belgium (40.8 %), Luxembourg (43.1 %) and the Netherlands (47.3 %) reported drinking alcohol every week. At the other end of the scale, in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Sweden, Ireland and Romania as well as Norway and Turkey, the percentage of the population drinking alcohol on a daily basis accounted for less than 3 %. Italy and Spain recorded a share of people who drink alcohol daily that exceeded 12 % of the reference population, while in Portugal this share reached 20.7 %. Table 1: Distribution of persons aged 15 and over according to the frequency of alcohol consumption, 2019 It is also of interest that regular risky single-occasion alcohol consumption is disproportionately more prevalent among men, persons with medium and high educational attainment and people with the highest incomes. ![]() Also, there are countries that are characterised by daily drinking of alcohol (for example Spain, Italy, Portugal), but the levels of regular heavy episodic drinking are relatively low. The data show that patterns of drinking vary across EU countries for example, in two countries (Luxembourg and Denmark) the pattern of alcohol consumption is characterised by high proportions of the population drinking at least every month but also high proportions of heavy drinking episodes at the same frequency, while in Romania risky single-occasion drinking proportions are high despite the relatively low proportion of alcohol consumption at least every month. The statistics reported in this article come from the third wave of the European health interview survey (EHIS), conducted between 20 and covering persons aged 15 and over.
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