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The most consumed type of alcoholic drink in Europe
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For people surprised by the UK, here is the 2018 report: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241565639
It says that the recorder alcohol consumption by percentage was 35.7% wine and 35.0% beer, so a close one.
Found this table from the source, wine seems to be quite ahead!
The diagram is the amount of pure alcohol. Beer typilally contains 3.5 % - 5 % alcohol and wine 12 %, thus the consumption of beer in litres is larger than wine.
However, I was also surprised how much wine (with or without alcohol) is consumed in Sweden considering its price.
Edit: phrasing
Pretty sure in sweden supermarket sold beer maxes out at 3.5% alc if i remenber that right.
Yes, beer with up to 3.5 % you can buy in a supermarket. Beer above 3.5 % is called strong beer (starköl) which you can only buy at Systembolaget, the governmental alcohol store. Considering a large part of the beer is light beer (lättöl) or folks beer (folköl) below 3.5 %, the amount of beer to cover the 36 % pure alcohol is even higher.
"Pure" ? You mean generally 40 ethanol?
No, the calculation is like 0.5 litre beer with 5 vol.% alcohol contain 25 ml pure (100 %) alcohol and these 25 ml go into the statistics as alcohol from the consumption of beer.