Who Drinks the Most Alcohol?

How tipsy you'll be when you toast the new year could depend:

..on your sex,
..education level, and
..where you live.

Anneli Rufus on 15 stats that predict your propensity to imbibe.

1. Men drink 11.1 percent more than women.

In a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services survey, 57.6 percent of males aged 12 and older and 46.5 percent of females aged 12 and older reported having consumed at least one alcoholic beverage in the past 30 days. (Other studies consistently show adult men out-drinking adult women.) The gender gap is slimmer among underage drinkers: 15.1 percent of males aged 12 to 17, compared to 14.3 percent of females aged 12 to 17. Rachael Brownell, the author of Mommy Doesn't Drink Here Anymore, warns that surveys based on self-reported drinking rates are suspect "and highly subjective, because people with massive drinking problems don't think they have drinking problems."

National Survey on Drug Use and Health (2010): Volume 1, Summary of National Findings. Prepared by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Office of Applied Studies

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