What is the alcohol consumption in Italy? With the answer, Global Drug Survey, an independent research organization based in London, which has just published the Sustainability Report 2021 on drug use in 2020.
The method used by GDS to carry out the research is the anonymous online test: According to the organization founded in 2012, participation was lower than in previous years and this may be a reflection of a general malaise on the issue of drug use around the world.
Alcohol consumption, the annual report of the Global Drug Survey
In total, 33.022 people over the age of 25, from different parts of the world, participated in the research by Global Drug Survey.
The country with the highest participation was Germany, with 11.514 anonymous tests compiled.
Italy is the country with the lowest participation in the anonymous online tests carried out by the GDS to prepare the 2021 Report on the use of drugs in 2020: only 168 tests compiled by Italians, what represents just 1% of global research.
behind the Germany, we find New Zealand, with 3.377 tests, followed by the United States, and Australia, which responded with 1.850 and 1.633 tests respectively. In France, 1.558 people participated, while in the United Kingdom there were 1.263. In Brazil,823 tests.
Among the countless questions in the test carried out by the GDS, it asked how many times, during the year 2020, the interviewee had been drunk: the average of Italians respondents was 10,8 days per year, with 12,7 days for men and 4,3 for women. The average ofBrazilian alcohol consumption is almost the same as in Italy: 11,1 glasses per year, according to the research.
In this ranking, in first place with an average of 26,7 times is Australia.
In general, the most consumed substance in 2020 was alcohol, followed by Cannabis and Tobacco. In fourth place in the ranking is MDMA (known by the imprecise term ecstasy), ahead of Cocaine, e-cigarettes, amphetamines and LSD. Followed by magic mushrooms or hallucinogens, Benzodiazepines, Ketamine, Opiates, Dinitrogen Oxide and Popper.
Classification of days of alcohol abuse in a year
- Australia – 26,7 times per year
- Denmark – 23,8 times per year
- Finland – 23,8 times per year
- United States – 23,1 times per year
- United Kingdom – 22,5 times per year
- Canada – 22 times a year
- Ireland – 20 times a year
- France – 17,5 times per year
- Netherlands – 15,7 times per year
- Hungary – 15,1 times per year
- Austria – 14,3 times per year
- Belgium – 12,9 times per year
- Poland – 13,6 times per year
- Switzerland – 12,4 times per year
- Brazil – 11,1 times per year
- Italy – 10,8 times per year
- Spain – 10,8 times per year
- Germany – 10,6 times per year
- Romania – 10,6 times per year
- New Zealand – 10,3 times per year
- Mexico 8,9 – times per year
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