Alcohol Statistics in Europe

Alcohol statistics levels across the world tend to converge; exception to this is the Eastern Mediterranean region, where the alcohol statistics show that the alcohol consumption and abuse remains very low because the majority of the population is of Muslim religion.

Alcohol statistics around the world (Europe, America, Canada and Africa) peaked around the beginning of the 1980s. They showed that depressions and alcohol consumption related problems often go hand-in-hand, but the evidence seems to suggest that in men alcohol use preceded the depression, while in women the depression comes before the use of alcohol.

Also, risk of death from consumption of alcohol is a set of scales between the risk of illnesses that alcohol does increase and the risk of heart related diseases (mostly occurring at older age) which, in small amounts, alcohol decreases.

Statistics show that by far the greatest alcohol related killer is drink-driving. A current estimate is that 10 thousand deaths in drinking under the influence accidents, occure each year involving people other than the driver, with a high percent of alcohol-related crime also very likely to happen to others. From this figures, Germany has 17% alcohol contribution to the EU's drink-driving accidents. Sadly, deceased drivers in fatal accidents involving only one person aren't tested for consumption of alcohol, but we know that the contribution of alcohol-related accidents with only one individual involved, than in any other types of accidents, so we can safely say hat a realistic number regarding the contribution of alcohol in deadly accidents should be much higher in all countries in Europe.

Alcohol statistics in Europe and the rest of the world have shown that a moderate dose of alcohol consumption greatly reduces the risk of heart illness, even if the exact size of the reduction in the risk level of alcohol consumption at which the greatest reduction occurs are still anyone's guess.

Currently, most countries forbid sales of alcohol to teens under a specified age (defined by the law) in bars, clubs and English pubs, although there still are 4 countries in which there's no policy concerning the selling of alcohol to teen in shops.