Also, we don’t take as many drugs as we used to. Kids today, eh?
Britain is a nation of boozers, right?
We're famous for it. Especially our teenagers. The newspapers are full of terrible stories about young people being sick and falling over in town centres.
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And it's true, to an extent. Britain does drink more than the average European nation.
According to the World Health Organisation's Global Alcohol Report 2014, Britain drinks 11.6 litres of pure alcohol per person per year. (We're the red line, above.) The European average is 10 litres. Mind you, we're no Belarus, which tops the charts with 17.5 litres.
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But it's far from the whole story. In fact, Britain's alcohol consumption has been dropping for a decade.
According to statistics from the British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA), alcohol consumption went up for the first few years of the millennium, peaked in 2004, and has been dropping ever since.
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And the drop-off has been most dramatic among the young. They're less likely to be frequent drinkers.
According to a new report by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), just 2% of 16- to 24-year-olds in 2013 had drunk on five or more days in the week before the survey. That's a drop of more than two-thirds since 2005.
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