In quali paesi si beve più alcol? Per fornire una risposta a questo interrogativo spunta una mappa eleborata dal sito americano Mashable e realizzata utilizzando le informazioni fornite nel 2014 dall’Organizzazione Mondiale dellà Sanità. Il consumo di bevande alcoliche, questo emerge dai dati dell’agenzia delle Nazioni Unite per la salute e dalla cartina pubblicata sul web, è molto diffuso nella regione dell’Est Europa, nell’Asia settentrionale, ovvero in Russia, ma anche in Canada e in alcune zone dell’emisfero australe, come in Australia, in Sudafrica e nella vicina Namibia. L’Italia, intanto, sembra posizionarsi ad un livello inferiore rispetto a tutti gli altri paesi del Vecchio continente.
The average person who is 15 or older, globally, drinks 26.2 cups of pure alcohol in a given year, according to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO). That equates to a little less than half an ounce of pure alcohol each day.
The highest consumption levels continue to be found in the developed world, the report states, noting in particular in the WHO European Region (including countries like Austria, Germany, Russia and the UK) and the WHO Region of the Americas (including all of the countries in North, Central and South America).
The countries that consume the most of it, per the WHO's 2014 report, vary widely. Their habits can be attributed to a number of factors, including sociodemographic, rates of abstention, level of economic development, culture (i.e., if a country is overwhelmingly Muslim) and the preferred beverage types (vodka versus, say, sangria).
The report states that "intermediate levels of consumption" are found in the WHO Western Pacific Region, which stretches from China in the north and west to New Zealand in the south and French Polynesia in the east, and the WHO African Region, which includes the majority of central and southern Africa.
The lowest consumption levels are found in the WHO South-East Asia Region and particularly in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region. Countries there include Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and Syria.
The report detailed alcohol consumption in its nearly 200 member states. More than three million people died in 2012 as a result of harmful use of alcohol, the report states, highlighting how alcohol consumption increases the risk of developing more than 200 diseases, including liver cirrhosis and some cancers.
“More needs to be done to protect populations from the negative health consequences of alcohol consumption,” Dr. Oleg Chestnov, WHO Assistant Director-General for Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health, said in an announcement that accompanied the report. “The report clearly shows that there is no room for complacency when it comes to reducing the harmful use of alcohol.”
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