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Religiosity Also a Factor in Likelihood That People Drink
The figure rises to six drinks per week on average for those who appear to be regular drinkers, defined as those who had at least one drink in the past week. The year saw a reversal in the volume declines from previous years seen in the wine category. While imported wines grew +2.5%, the tariffs placed upon certain EU states by the Trump administration saw growth from markets not affected by them. One area of interest was low-alcohol wines which doubled their volumes in 2020, with many major brands entering the category.
Alcoholic beverages in the United States
- The charts show global consumption of beer, first in terms of beer as a share of total alcohol consumption, and then the estimated average consumption per person.
- Hop water is a “carbonated beverage made with hops,” which “tastes a lot like beer, but contains zero alcohol, as well as zero calories, carbs, sugar or gluten.”
- Data on the share who don’t drink alcohol by gender and age group in the UK is available here.
- More recently, for the 52 weeks ending September 2023, flavored whiskey sales grew by 1.9%.
Of course, I can’t be representative of every single person in my age bracket. So, I took to asking some peers — all of whom are in their 20s and 30s, and all of whose names I’ve changed — about theiraverage weekly spend on alcohol. Keep in mind almost all of these people live in urban areas, so it’s still not a completely accurate snapshot (though really, what is?), but I think their answers provide some interesting insight into how we approach this particular area of spending. It’s also a risk to others — through drunken driving or alcohol-fueled violence. And research based on surveys suggests that more than half of the alcohol sold in the U.S. is consumed during episodes of binge drinking. On the whole, U.S. drinkers reported consuming a modest amount of alcohol in 2022, averaging four drinks per week for all drinkers.
Drink Aware
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), in its Global Burden of Disease study, provides estimates of the number of deaths attributed to the range of risk factors.5 In the visualization, we see the number of deaths per year attributed to each risk factor. This chart is shown for the global total but can be explored for any country or region using the “Change country or region” toggle. Data on the prevalence of binge drinking by age and gender in the UK can be found here, and trends in heavy and binge drinking in the USA can be found here. Heavy episodic drinking is defined as the proportion of adult drinkers who have had at least 60 grams or more of pure alcohol on at least one occasion in the past 30 days.
Cosmetics consumer behavior in the U.S.
These shares are down helpstay reviews from 2001, when 73% of 12th graders, 64% of 10th graders and 42% of eighth graders said they had drunk alcohol in the previous year. Pew Research Center conducted this analysis to understand Americans’ experiences with alcohol and how they have changed over time. Survey data comes from Gallup and the University of Michigan’s Monitoring the Future Survey.
In fact, the market share for hard seltzer decreased slightly between 2020 and 2021 due to “increased competition from crossover categories like RTDs.” This interactive map shows the annual average alcohol consumption of alcohol, expressed per person aged 15 years or older. To account for the differences in alcohol content of different alcoholic drinks (e.g., beer, wine, spirits), this is reported in liters of pure alcohol per year. NielsenIQ revealed that “less than 5% of households s” purchased low and no-alcohol (LNA) beverages, which accounted for 3.5% of the total alcohol market share. Online sales of LNA beverages increased by 315% between October 2020 and 2021, while “alcoholic options” only increased by 26%. For non-alcoholic beverages, sales for the 52 weeks ending October 7, 2023, compared to the year before, increased by 32%, while total alcoholic beverage sales for the same period only increased by 1%.
By default, the data for France is shown – in recent decades, here, the share of beer consumption increased to make up around a fifth of alcohol consumption in France. The map shows heavy drinkers – those who had an episode of heavy drinking in the previous 30 days – as a share of total drinkers (i.e., those who have drunk less than one alcoholic drink in the last 12 months are excluded). Learn up-to-date facts and statistics on alcohol consumption and its impact in the United States and globally. Explore topics related to alcohol misuse and treatment, underage drinking, the effects of alcohol on the human body, and more. The growth rate for all other varietals reported decreased between 0.9% (Sauvignon blanc) and 16.9% (Sangria). A closer look at the “most popular” white varietal, Chardonnay (nearly 16% of the market share for those reported), and the “most popular” red varietal, Cabernet sauvignon (nearly 14%), revealed that the growth rate for these two decreased by 6.9 and 7.0%, respectively.
Slightly more Gen Z drinkers indicated that alcohol “helps me have a good time,” 49%, and “gives me a buzz,” 45%, compared to Millennial drinkers, 38 and 37%, respectively. Gen Z consumers aged 18 to 24 are more likely to have made or purchased a mocktail, 33% of those surveyed, than other age groups and more likely to buy a mocktail at a restaurant than older generations. NielsenIQ indicated that Wine RTD innovation will include “wine cocktail RTDs, especially sparkling versions.” Spirits seltzers and cocktails are “driving growth,” especially those with an ABV of 5% and under and an ABV between 5.1 and 10%. Vodka was the most popular base for spirits RTDs, followed by whiskey and tequila, then rum and gin. Between 2022 and 2026, the no-alcohol category is expected to increase in volume by 25%, while the low-alcohol category will increase by 6%. The NIAAA’s study released last week found that alcohol-related deaths have doubled since 1999, though many of those deaths could also be related to the increasingly deadly drugs used in the overdose epidemic, since many people drink while taking drugs, said Aaron White, the study’s lead researcher.