Table 1.
Description of individual-level data and country characteristics (%, or other if indicated).
| Region | n | Mean age, years |
Boys, % | 13-year-olds
|
15-year-olds
|
Abstainers, % |
Pattern of drinking scorea |
Per capita totalb |
Per capita drinkersc |
Binge male %d |
Minimum purchasing age, yearse |
Availabilityf | Alcohol control policy indexf |
Advertisingf | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drunk % | Weekly % | Drunk % | Weekly % | |||||||||||||
| Armenia | 1916 | 14.4 | 46.4 | 30.4 | 13.4 | 39.7 | 17.7 | 18.8 | 2 | 11.4 | 18.3 | – | 0 | – | – | – |
| Austria | 3538 | 14.4 | 48.1 | 14.4 | 6.0 | 51.9 | 32.7 | 6.7 | 1 | 13.2 | 15.7 | – | 16 | 0 | 23 | 0 |
| Belgium | 5386 | 14.4 | 50.3 | 15.8 | 6.0 | 42.9 | 24.1 | 8.0 | 1 | 10.8 | 12.8 | – | 16 | 8 | 42 | 1 |
| Canada | 842 | 14.4 | 48.6 | 19.4 | 4.1 | 47.7 | 14.6 | 8.3 | 2 | 9.8 | 12.6 | 12.6 | 18 | 21 | 50 | 0 |
| Croatia | 4367 | 14.5 | 48.2 | 27.2 | 14.0 | 56.1 | 34.7 | 21.5 | 3 | 15.1 | 26.3 | 10.2 | 18 | – | – | – |
| Czech | 2969 | 14.5 | 47.6 | 33.0 | 19.1 | 62.7 | 38.5 | 4.6 | 3 | 16.5 | 19.5 | 30.7 | 18 | 4 | 35 | 0 |
| Denmark | 2467 | 14.6 | 47.0 | 23.6 | 8.3 | 67.9 | 21.4 | 0.8 | 2 | 13.4 | 14.4 | 13.1 | 16 | 9 | 33 | 1 |
| Englandh | 2301 | 14.5 | 41.9 | 24.4 | 8.5 | 49.1 | 21.6 | 12.1 | 3 | 13.4 | 15.6 | – | 18 | 14 | 36 | 0 |
| Estonia | 2805 | 14.8 | 48.1 | 27.5 | 8.1 | 62.5 | 16.6 | 10.5 | 3 | 15.6 | 22.0 | 15.7 | 18 | – | – | – |
| Finland | 3777 | 14.7 | 47.9 | 15.7 | 3.3 | 49.9 | 7.6 | 6.9 | 3 | 12.5 | 14.2 | 15.0 | 18 | 15 | 54 | 3 |
| France | 3970 | 14.4 | 49.5 | 13.6 | 7.9 | 35.8 | 18.7 | 2.6 | 1 | 13.7 | 14.9 | 8.0 | 18 | 2 | 27 | 1g |
| Germany | 3265 | 14.4 | 47.4 | 15.9 | 4.1 | 45.0 | 20.9 | 1.7 | 1 | 12.8 | 13.4 | 13.1 | 16 | 8 | 22 | 0 |
| Greece | 3257 | 14.7 | 49.7 | 17.4 | 13.2 | 42.0 | 38.6 | 13.9 | 1 | 10.8 | 15.0 | – | 0 | 4 | 36 | 0 |
| Hungary | 3302 | 14.5 | 46.8 | 25.1 | 7.8 | 57.1 | 25.3 | 6.5 | 2 | 16.3 | 20.0 | 18.0 | 18 | 12 | 58 | 0 |
| Iceland | 7380 | 14.5 | 50.5 | 5.6 | 1.9 | 26.6 | 6.2 | 9.0 | 3 | 6.3 | 7.7 | 11.3 | 20 | 24 | 64 | 3 |
| Ireland | 3562 | 14.4 | 56.0 | 14.5 | 4.6 | 42.1 | 12.6 | 20.5 | 3 | 14.4 | 19.3 | 43.4 | 18 | 7 | 41 | 0 |
| Israel | 2580 | 14.7 | 43.4 | 7.6 | 39.0 | 25.3 | 43.6 | 40.5 | 2 | 2.9 | 5.5 | – | 18 | – | – | – |
| Italy | 3219 | 14.4 | 49.7 | 12.4 | 12.3 | 31.9 | 32.4 | 12.6 | 1 | 10.7 | 13.0 | 11.1 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 3 |
| Latvia | 2761 | 14.6 | 48.2 | 37.2 | 8.2 | 67.8 | 23.1 | 9.8 | 3 | 12.5 | 16.5 | 20.0 | 18 | – | – | – |
| Lithuania | 3509 | 14.7 | 51.7 | 41.9 | 7.5 | 74.4 | 21.0 | 10.5 | 3 | 15.0 | 10.1 | – | 18 | – | – | – |
| Luxembourg | 2978 | 14.4 | 50.0 | 11.9 | 5.5 | 34.3 | 20.3 | 10.4 | 1 | 13.0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 |
| Macedonia | 2816 | 14.6 | 50.7 | 9.1 | 3.6 | 31.1 | 17.9 | 40.5 | 3 | 8.5 | – | – | 18 | – | – | – |
| Netherlands | 3032 | 14.4 | 50.3 | 6.3 | 4.3 | 30.5 | 22.5 | 11.4 | 1 | 10.1 | 13.8 | 16.1 | 16 | 5 | 34 | 1 |
| Norway | 2634 | 14.5 | 50.5 | 7.4 | 4.2 | 37.8 | 10.0 | 3.2 | 3 | 7.8 | 8.7 | 2.7 | 18 | 15 | 67 | – |
| Poland | 2844 | 14.7 | 48.2 | 23.5 | 6.4 | 47.6 | 13.8 | 13.9 | 3 | 13.3 | 17.9 | – | 18 | 7 | 67 | 3 |
| Portugal | 2848 | 14.5 | 45.8 | 17.3 | 2.3 | 34.3 | 8.3 | 25.3 | 1 | 14.6 | 27.5 | – | 16 | 0 | 27 | 1 |
| Romania | 3673 | 14.2 | 49.1 | 30.6 | 16.8 | 53.3 | 23.8 | 12.8 | 3 | 15.3 | 24.5 | – | 18 | – | – | – |
| Russia | 2956 | 14.6 | 49.5 | 23.2 | 7.9 | 40.7 | 11.0 | 19.7 | 3 | 15.7 | 26.7 | 15.7 | 18 | – | – | – |
| Scotlandh | 465 | 14.6 | 49.2 | 28.5 | 9.3 | 57.1 | 27.3 | 12.4 | 3 | 13.4 | 15.6 | – | 18 | 14 | 36 | 0 |
| Slovakia | 3851 | 14.4 | 48.9 | 26.8 | 12.0 | 53.2 | 21.8 | 7.3 | 3 | 13.3 | 17.3 | 15.0 | 18 | 4 | 57 | 1 |
| Slovenia | 3625 | 14.6 | 50.1 | 25.1 | 7.5 | 59.2 | 26.7 | 6.3 | 3 | 15.2 | 17.9 | – | 18 | – | – | – |
| Spain | 3777 | 14.5 | 48.4 | 17.3 | 6.0 | 49.5 | 22.6 | 17.1 | 1 | 11.6 | 21.1 | – | 16 | 11 | 41 | 3 |
| Sweden | 4358 | 14.4 | 49.8 | 7.5 | 3.5 | 36.6 | 10.0 | 8.1 | 3 | 10.3 | 12.5 | 2.3 | 20 | 20 | 64 | 3 |
| Switzerland | 4759 | 14.4 | 50.6 | 14.1 | 6.5 | 39.2 | 19.3 | 14.0 | 1 | 10.9 | 13.4 | 4.4 | 16 | 5 | 22 | 3 |
| Ukraine | 3731 | 14.7 | 47.1 | 29.9 | 17.4 | 55.4 | 36.3 | 22.7 | 3 | 15.6 | 27.9 | 21.2 | 0 | – | – | – |
| US | 4250 | 14.3 | 52.3 | 10.1 | 4.5 | 27.8 | 9.8 | 17.5 | 2 | 9.4 | 14.4 | – | 21 | 23 | 43 | 1 |
| Walesh | 3523 | 14.6 | 51.2 | 34.5 | 13.8 | 64.1 | 32.1 | 12.1 | 3 | 13.4 | 15.6 | – | 18 | 14 | 36 | 0 |
| Mean (SD) | 14.5 (1.1) | 49.1 (0.0) | 18.3 (0.4) | 7.8 (0.3) | 46.5 (0.5) | 21.1 (0.4) | 12.8 (8.9) | 2.4 (1.1) | 12.4 (2.9) | 22.3 (7.8) | 15.0 (9.4) | 15.8 (5.7) | 9.4 (7.2) | 40.9 (14.8) | 1.2 (1.3) | |
Patterns of drinking score ranging from 1–3, with 3 indicating the most harmful drinking pattern.
Based on recorded alcohol consumption and estimations of unrecorded alcohol measured in litres of pure alcohol consumed by the adult population (aged 15 years or more).
Alcohol per capita consumption among drinkers measured as pure alcohol consumed by the drinking population in litres.
Defined as having at least 60 g or more of pure alcohol on one occasion during the past 7 days.
Minimum purchasing age for any type of alcohol.
Alcohol Control Policy Index taken from Brand et al. 2007 [36].
France was the only country with a score of 2 and was therefore grouped with countries scoring 1.
The UK average was applied to Scotland, England and Wales, as regional data on adult drinking patterns were not available for the time-period—no data available.