![]() ![]() The highest shares of persons consuming no alcoholic beverages (either in the 12 months prior to the survey or never) were mainly found in Croatia (38.3 %) and Italy (34.8 %) while the lowest shares were found in Denmark (9.4 %), Czechia (15.2 %) and Luxembourg (17.2 %). Furthermore, Lithuania, Latvia, Cyprus and Poland, as well as Norway, recorded a share of persons consuming alcohol every month that exceeded 30 % of the population, as opposed to the Netherlands, Portugal, Italy, Belgium, Spain and Malta, where this share accounted for less than one fifth of the population. Over 40 % of the population in Belgium (40.8 %), Luxembourg (43.1 %) and the Netherlands (47.3 %) reported drinking alcohol every week. At the other end of the scale, in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Sweden, Ireland and Romania as well as Norway and Turkey, the percentage of the population drinking alcohol on a daily basis accounted for less than 3 %. Italy and Spain recorded a share of people who drink alcohol daily that exceeded 12 % of the reference population, while in Portugal this share reached 20.7 %. Table 1: Distribution of persons aged 15 and over according to the frequency of alcohol consumption, 2019 It is also of interest that regular risky single-occasion alcohol consumption is disproportionately more prevalent among men, persons with medium and high educational attainment and people with the highest incomes. Also, there are countries that are characterised by daily drinking of alcohol (for example Spain, Italy, Portugal), but the levels of regular heavy episodic drinking are relatively low. The data show that patterns of drinking vary across EU countries for example, in two countries (Luxembourg and Denmark) the pattern of alcohol consumption is characterised by high proportions of the population drinking at least every month but also high proportions of heavy drinking episodes at the same frequency, while in Romania risky single-occasion drinking proportions are high despite the relatively low proportion of alcohol consumption at least every month. The statistics reported in this article come from the third wave of the European health interview survey (EHIS), conducted between 20 and covering persons aged 15 and over.
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