Eurostat: Every twelfth adult in the EU consumes alcohol every day

By: Trademagazin editor Date: 2021. 08. 06. 11:04

In the European Union, 8.4 percent of the total population, every twelfth adult, consumes alcohol every day, according to a survey published on Friday by the EU’s Luxembourg-based statistical office based on 2019 data.

Portugal has the highest rate of daily alcohol consumption, with one-fifth of the population – 20.7 percent – drinking on a daily basis, followed by Spain and Italy with 13 and 12 percent respectively. This rate is the lowest in Latvia and Lithuania, at only 1 percent. At the same time, the survey also shows that these two Baltic states have the highest number of weekly and monthly drinkers, at 31.1 and 31.3 percent. (MTI)