Deaths From Alcohol Rising World-Wide

Alcohol is becoming known for increasing death rates across the world. According to new statistics, 1 in 25 deaths across the world can be linked to consumption of alcohol, including violence, injury, as well as disease.

According to the medical journal, the Lancet , “The net effect of alcohol consumption on health is detrimental, with an estimated 3·8% of all global deaths and 4·6% of global disability-adjusted life-years attributable to alcohol. Disease burden is closely related to average volume of alcohol consumption”

And, of course, it goes without saying that it’s the poor and the marginalized of the world who are hardest hit by the effects of alcohol.

What makes these numbers astounding is that statistics show that there are more people in the world who abstain from drinking alcohol than those who do drink it. Despite that, the study, published in the Lancet , found that an average of 26 cups or 1.6 gallons (6.2 litres) of pure alcohol is consumed per year per person per week, across the world, with Europe being higher than average and eastern Mediterranean countries very much lower. The average is equal to about 12 beers, or 12 medium glasses of wine.

Death rates

Talking about alcohol consumption doesn’t make an impression if you don’t know what the death rates are, associated with alcohol. In Europe, one in 10 deaths was somehow related to alcohol consumption. Sadly, it’s even higher in Russia and other former Soviet countries at one in every seven deaths.

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