Country | Prevalence and social effects | Medical consequences | Economic burden |
USA [21] - [25] | 12.7% of adults meet the criteria for alcohol use disorder (AUD) 10% of U.S. children live with a parent with alcohol problems (2012) 10,500 motor vehicle deaths (2016) 111 million self-reported episodes of alcohol-impaired driving among U.S. adults each year | 88,000 deaths annually (cirrhosis, cancer) Alcohol involved in 50% of homicides and 33% of suicides | USD 249 billion (2010) Early mortality due to alcohol ($75 billion of the total), lost productivity and absenteeism at work ($82 billion), health-care costs ($28 billion), crime ($25 billion) and car crashes ($13 billion) |
United Kingdom [26] | 2% - 3% of population are dependent drinkers | 1.17 million hospital admissions due to alcohol (2017) | 1.3% to 2.7% of annual UK GDP, approximately £21 - £52 billion (2016) |
PR China [27] | Alcohol use disorder 9.3% of males | 310,000 deaths annually (2010) |
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Australia [28] [29] [30] | 6% of population drink alcohol daily, 18% drink most days/week, 20% of employed people are high risk drinkers, 22% experienced abuse of fear related to alcohol | 4186 deaths (2017) annually 144,000 hospital admissions (2013) | AUD $14.4 billion (2010) |