UK Alcohol Consumption: Trends, Consequences, and Public Health Report

This report provides an overview of alcohol consumption trends in the UK, analyzing data from 1995 to 2018. It highlights the initial increase in consumption followed by a decline, and discusses the affordability of alcohol. The report presents statistics on alcohol unit consumption by gender, the impact on mortality rates, and the rise in alcohol-related hospital admissions among youth. It also examines the shift in alcohol preferences, with beer and wine consumption increasing, and the decline of pubs leading to more home consumption. The analysis includes per capita alcohol consumption data and references related research. This data is available on Desklib where students can find other assignments and study tools.

Consumption of Alcohol in UK
Consumption of Alcohol has risen in UK between the year 1995 – 2004. As it
has reached just double from the previous years. After that it has fallen
slightly between the year 2004 – 2018 with a slowdown of 16%.
Alcohol Consumption Per
Capita
The consumption of alcohol has reduced over the past few years. Mostly all
the age groups said they do not consume alcohol, age groups like 16 below
and above. There has been a shift to beer and wine consumption the most
though beer is still consumed the most with a percentage of 35.8 in UK. 'On
trade' sold 32% of pure volume of alcohol. In terms of other countries, Alcohol
consumption per capita in UK is 11.4%.
Proportion of Gender
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Consequences
Deaths due to alcohol consumption is 15 per 100,000 people in UK.
Every year there is a misuse of alcohol consumption which is
resulting in 30% of the suicides. Over the past few years there has
been a growth in the hospital admission of youth.
According to a research mostly none of them knew the amount of
calories in beer and wine or any spirit they consumed. An average of
8.4% of energy intake comes with the alcohol they consume.
The affordability of alcohol was 64% in UK and over time the trend of
increasing affordability can be visible. Men should not consume alcohol more
than 50 units and women above 35 units but in a study its shown that they are
drinking exactly to this limit.
As per the above graph it has been identified that reduction in the alcohol
consumption in respect of gender proportion is declined in units. As 64% of
women and 56% of men said that they intake alcohol in the last year and that
their average weekly alcohol consumption was less than 14 units.
As per the above pie graph it has been identified that alcohol is highly consume
through bars and restaurant. Thus, A decline of pubs has been seen with 17%
are reducing. Due to this the people now prefer drinking at home. There has
been a decrease in the consumption of alcohol in the recent years.
Background
References