Table 1.
Patterns of drinking among adult women in 20 African countries
| Country | n | Lifetime abstainers (%)* |
Current drinkers (%)* |
Heavy drinkers (%)** |
Risky single-occasion drinkers (%)** |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 2543 | 64.4 | 29.5 | 33.5 | 31.0 |
| Chad | 2435 | 79.0 | 17.0 | 41.3 | 57.5 |
| Comoros | 969 | 99.9 | - | - | - |
| Congo | 1185 | 59.4 | 18.9 | 5.2 | 15.3 |
| Cote d'Ivoire | 1339 | 73.0 | 12.1 | 7.1 | 6.9 |
| Ethiopia | 2535 | 64.1 | 19.1 | 5.3 | 1.8 |
| Ghana | 2159 | 63.0 | 12.9 | 4.4 | 3.3 |
| Kenya | 2537 | 89.5 | 4.1 | 14.0 | 12.4 |
| Malawi | 3082 | 92.8 | 1.0 | 11.5 | 36.4 |
| Mali | 1749 | 95.8 | 2.5 | 8.6 | 22.4 |
| Mauritania | 2193 | 97.7 | - | - | - |
| Mauritius | 2016 | 56.1 | 11.8 | 0.9 | 0.3 |
| Morocco | 2926 | 99.8 | 0.0 | - | - |
| Namibia | 2379 | 69.8 | 22.5 | 12.1 | 17.8 |
| Senegal | 1223 | 97.7 | 1.0 | 13.0 | 21.4 |
| South Africa | 1228 | 82.0 | 13.5 | 15.6 | 30.5 |
| Swaziland | 1189 | 92.6 | 5.0 | 8.8 | 18.5 |
| Tunisia | 2411 | 99.8 | - | - | - |
| Zambia | 2088 | 85.8 | 5.9 | 17.7 | 27.6 |
| Zimbabwe | 2553 | 90.8 | 3.4 | 7.2 | 18.3 |
*% of total
**% of current drinkers
- weighted proportion estimates excluded for countries with 5 or less current drinkers