France is the country where people drink alcohol the most regularly out of a selection of 22 countries from around the world, the latest study from the Global Drug Survey (GDS) 2021 has found. The results show that French people drank on 132 days of the year, around two-and-a-half times per week.
Do the French drink more than the British?
British adults were more likely to have drunk alcohol in the past 12 months (88%) than the French (86%) or Germans (70%). Half the British drank at least two or three times a week, compared with only a third of the French and Germans.
Which country in Europe drinks the most?
France consumed the most alcohol than any other top country by GDP and also has an above-average life expectancy.
Do French people drink a lot of alcohol?
France is in 6ᵉ place among the countries that consume the most alcohol in the world. According to a 2017 study, the French drink 11.7 liters of alcohol per person per year.
Are the British the biggest drinkers?
Lower than the UK were the most populated countries in the world – China, India, the US, Brazil and Indonesia – making Britons some of the heaviest drinkers on Earth.
Which country drinks the most?
Where the World’s Youngest and Oldest Drink Most
| Rank | Country | Prevalence of drinkers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Luxembourg | 74.70% |
| 2 | Denmark | 94.30% |
| 3 | Bermuda | 49.60% |
| 4 | Spain | 66.70% |
Who drinks more US or UK?
Americans drink the equivalent of 470 pints of mild beer annually. The average British drinker consumes 1,100 pints of beer in a year. The USA has one of the lowest rates of drinking in the developed world. According to the WHO, the average American drinks just around 31 glasses of wine.
Why do Brits drink so much?
Drinking alcohol is mainly about being sociable. Us Brits love to get together in bars, clubs, restaurants and pubs to catch up on gossip, talk politics, watch sport and celebrate friends and families’ successes and anniversaries, like growing another year older.
Which country is the most heavy drinker?
Here are the 10 countries with the most alcohol consumption:
- Germany – 12.79 liters/year.
- Lithuania – 12.78 liters/year.
- Ireland – 12.75 liters/year.
- Spain – 12.67 liters/year.
- Uganda – 12.48 liters/year.
- Bulgaria – 12.46 liters/year.
- Luxembourg – 12.45 liters/year.
- Romania – 12.34 liters/year.
Which UK country drinks the most alcohol?
Heavy binge drinking is well established in Britain and the country consistently ranks highest for binge drinking culture in health reports. The percentage of people binge drinking varies slightly from constituent country to country, In England in 2019 this was 15%, Wales; 14% and Scotland 18%.
Do the French drink every day?
You may have heard that the French drink wine every day, and although we usually like to debunk clichés about les français, this one is pretty accurate. In the US, your average adult drinks 12.4 litres of wine per year, whereas in France the number is 50.2.
Do the French have a drinking problem?
More than one in ten men (11 percent) in France die every year from alcohol-related causes which is more than twice as much as women (4 percent).
How common is alcoholism in France?
Alcoholism by Country 2022
| Country | Male | Combined |
|---|---|---|
| France | 11.10% | 7.00% |
| Colombia | 10.40% | 7.00% |
| Paraguay | 10.20% | 7.00% |
| Bulgaria | 12.20% | 6.90% |
Is alcoholism high in England?
England. 67% of adults (aged 18+) are categorised as low risk. 19% of adults are drinking at increased or high risk levels. 26% of males are drinking at increased or high risk levels compared to 12% of females.
Does the UK have a high rate of alcoholism?
Figures based on YouGov surveys show 18.1% of adults in England were drinking at “increasing or higher risk” in the three months to the end of October 2021, which equates to 8 million people. That is much higher than in February 2020, before the pandemic, when 12.4% or about 6 million people drank at these levels.
What UK City drinks the most?
The aim was to find out which cities in the UK are most likely to be at risk of having a dangerous drinking culture. Bristol racked up a score of 16.6 out of 80 (the lower the score, the worse the result) that placed it in third, just behind Leeds and London. Leeds scored 11 while London came in at top spot with zero.
What countries drink the least?
Here is a map of the countries that drink the most alcohol per capita.
The 10 countries that drink the least alcohol, in liters per capita over 15+ years, ranked:
- Comoros (0.2)
- Saudi Arabia (0.2)
- Yemen (0.2)
- Kuwait (0.1)
- Mauritania (0.1)
- Pakistan (0.1)
- Libya (0)
What country has no drinking age?
However, Angola (except Luanda Province), Central African Republic, Comoros, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, and Togo have no laws on the books restricting the sale of alcohol to minors. In Libya, Somalia and Sudan the sale, production and consumption of alcohol is completely prohibited.
What country has the youngest drinkers?
In fact, 64 percent of the world’s nations have legal drinking ages of 18. The youngest legal drinking age in the world is 15, with both Mali and the Central African Republic allowing folks to drink at that time.
Is alcohol a problem in the UK?
It’s undoubtedly an enormous undertaking given the dominance of Big Alcohol over global policy, discourse and imaginations. Radical and systemic political action is urgently required if we are to stand any chance of addressing Britain’s great drinking problem – or we will continue to mourn it.
What Europeans drink the most?
Germany. People in the European Union consume more alcohol than in any other part of the world, drinking an average of 8.71 liters, or around 25 beer-sized glasses of pure alcohol, per person a year, according to the latest European health report from the World Health Organization.