10 May ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION ON THE RISE.
As time goes by and alcohol becomes more accessible, the UK becomes one of the highest alcohol drinkers on record.
Alcohol consumption amongst UK citizens is on the rise each and every year, with a staggering amount of pure alcohol consumed every day by a large majority of British citizens. I am here to show you some of the facts and statistics when it comes to alcohol consumption here in the United Kingdom.
The dataset I used when constructing this piece taught me that the United Kingdom was the 15th highest alcohol drinker in the world with a staggering 10.66 pure litres of a variety of different types of alcohol drunk per person aged 15 and over. The highest volume of alcohol consumption per person was 17.31 pure litres of alcohol in Belarus. This baffled me as Belarus is one of the poorest countries on the dataset. 
The lowest amount of alcohol drunk per person was 0.01 litres in Afghanistan but in actual fact, the lowest per person in some countries was 0.00 litres as alcohol is not drunk in these countries such as the Marshall Islands and Somalia. Some of this information might be invalid as these countries may not actually have the statistics or data in that respect.
I believe that the United Kingdom is up there as one of the highest drinking countries in the world because the culture that the country adopts is one of a very western-world influence and alcohol has always been an important part of the UK’s tradition and history. Drinking is seen as a cool thing to do amongst the youths of the United Kingdom and retailers and distributors play up to this by providing good and cheap deals on alcohol in the UK to entice people to cave in and purchase the alcohol. As well as influence from culture and alcohol makers, the media can influence people’s choices when it comes to alcohol. For example, a lot of popular songs will play up to this and portray partying and drinking as a fun, cool thing to do and drinking is always depicted in film and television. I strongly believe that the youths in the United Kingdom are more prone to drinking due to these factors and where the culture is so multi-cultural and lots more things are accepted in comparison to other countries.
In contrast, people in Afghanistan are a lot less likely to drink due to the fact that their way of live is completely different. They follow a completely different set of norms and values within their society and you could even say that they might not drink to the religion of their country. Another factor is these countries connections with alcohol distributors across the world. War-torn countries that are religious and follow a very old-fashioned traditionally valued life, won’t have alcohol from the western world imported in as it would go against everything that they believe in completely.
