We've created a list of Alcohol-Related Statistics for you to contemplate. Alcohol can have major effects on people's personal and professional lives. Some of the following information may be surprising to view.
- it’s typical to see over a thousand beer and alcohol-related commercials each year
- Alcohol factors into half of all driving deaths
- Someone dies in an alcohol-related accident almost 50 times a day
- Over 15 million citizens are dependent on alcohol
- 500,000 of those dependents are under the age of 13
- The liquor industry spends almost $2 billion on advertising each year
- Over $90 billion is spent on alcohol each year
- The average person consumes the following amount of alcohol each year:
- 133 bears
- 10 bottles of wine
- 64 shots of distilled spirits
- Pregnant women who drink are feeding alcohol to their babies
- Alcohol will stay in a baby's system twice as long as an adults
- Students consume more than $5.5 billion worth of alcohol each year
- 56 percent of junior high and high school students report that alcohol advertisements influences them to drink
- One-in-fifteen workers who work full-time report that they drink heavily, breaking down to:
- Drinking five or more drinks per occasion
- Partaking in five or more drinking occasions in the past month
- Unemployed adults between the ages of 26 and 34 are considered to be the biggest concentration of heavy drinkers
- Almost two-in-five of all industrial fatalities are alcohol-related
- Close to half-of-all industrial accidents with injuries are alcohol-related
- In 2000, nearly seven million people between the ages of 12 and 20 were considered to be "binge drinkers"
- Approximately one-in-five under the legal drinking age is labeled as a "binge drinker"
- A recently study stated that 25 million (one-in-ten) people admit to driving while drunk
- This amount has increased by three million from the previous year
- Among adults 25 and under, a quarter drive while drunk
- Last year, 17, 488 people were killed in alcohol-related accidents
- This amount has increased by 800 from the previous year
- Alcohol is the number one drug problem
- Over 40 percent of Americans have alcoholism in their families
- Nearly 25 percent of people entering a hospital due so for alcohol-related issues
- $100 million is spent on health care and lost productivity every year due to alcohol-related problems
- 40 percent of criminals report that alcohol is a factor in their violent behavior
- Three-out-of-four spousal abuse incidents are reported to involve alcohol
- In 1996, more than 1, 467,300 driving under the influence of alcohol arrests were made
