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Poland, Estonia... These European countries where alcohol expenditure is the highest

2023-02-10T17:57:24.110Z


1% of the European Union's total GDP is spent on alcoholic beverages, according to Eurostat data. Alcohol knows no crisis. 128 billion euros were spent on alcohol by European households in 2021, i.e. almost 1% of the GDP of the European Union or even the entirety of that of Morocco in the same year. A striking figure, highlighted by Eurostat - the statistical service of the European Commission - in its annual report on household consumption expenditure in member countries, published in early F


Alcohol knows no crisis.

128 billion euros were spent on alcohol by European households in 2021, i.e. almost 1% of the GDP of the European Union or even the entirety of that of Morocco in the same year.

A striking figure, highlighted by Eurostat - the statistical service of the European Commission - in its annual report on household consumption expenditure in member countries, published in early February.

Strong disparities exist between countries, which are more or less fond of alcoholic beverages.

With a slate of 22.7 billion euros, the French occupy the second step of the podium, behind the Germans, with 26.8 billion.

These two nations are far ahead of the others: in third place come only the Poles and their 11.7 billion euros, then the Italians, with 10.5 billion euros.

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Strong disparities thus exist between the countries, which are more or less fond of alcoholic beverages and devote a more or less massive part of their budget to these products.

With 1.8% of their total consumer spending devoted to these nectars, French households are right in line with the European average.

Indeed, on the addition, Estonia ranks among the last countries, but in proportion, it takes second place in the table of drinkers.

The golden corkscrew goes to Latvia, where the population spends 5% of their piggy bank on alcohol.

In terms of development, the Eurostat report is relatively reassuring.

The share of total household expenditure devoted to alcohol […] increased only in Croatia, with strong decreases recorded in Ireland (-0.5 pp), Latvia and Lithuania (-0 .4 pp each), in Spain and Estonia (-0.3 pp each)

”, notes the statistical service of the European Commission.

In France, the proportion is slightly lower than that of the previous year, with a decrease of 0.1 point.

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Unveiled a week after the publication of the 2021 barometer of the National Cancer Institute, the Eurostat report has dismal echoes.

Alcohol is, in fact, the second cause of cancer in France.

In 2015, 28,000 new cases (i.e. 8%) were attributable to this substance recognized as carcinogenic since 1988. On average, each Frenchman aged 15 and over drinks 10.4 liters of pure alcohol, a level of consumption "

of the highest in the world according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

”.

The institute explains it by “

a historical, cultural and economic context, valued by the representatives of the wine sector, certain elected officials and politicians who describe it as a “base of French identity”

”.

Still, the habits of the French have evolved: according to INSEE, households devoted, in 2018, some 2.9% of their budget “

to drinks consumed at

home

”.

However, “

the share of expenditure on alcoholic beverages has been reduced in favor of non-alcoholic beverages

”: it has thus fallen from 77.6%, in 1960, to 59.7%, noted, in 2020, the national statisticians.

Source: lefigaro

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