Table 17: Burden of disease in 2000 attributable to tobacco, alcohol and drugs by developing status and sex

	High mortality developing			Low mortality developing			Developed
	(AFR-D, AFR-E, AMR-D, EMR-D, SEAR-D)*			(AMR-B, EMR-B, SEAR-B,WPR-B)*			(AMR-A, EUR-A, EUR-B, EUR-C,WPR-A)*
	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total
*[All WHO member states are classified into the following geographical regions and mortality strata: Epidemiological Sub-Regions: AFR - African Region EMR - Eastern Mediterranean Region EUR - European Region AMR - Region of the Americas SEAR - South-East Asian Region WPR - Western Pacific Region Mortality Strata: A. Very low child, very low adult B. Low child, low adult C. Low child, high adult D. High child, high adult E. High child, very high adult For more information on the different regions, see www.who.int/choice/demography/regions/en/index.html
Total DALYs (000s)	420 711	412 052	832 763	223 181	185 316	408 497	117 670	96 543	214 213
- Smoking and oral tobacco (%)	3.4	0.6	2.0	6.2	1.3	4.0	17.1	6.2	12.2
- Alcohol (%)	2.6	0.5	1.6	9.8	2.0	6.2	14.0	3.3	9.2
- Illicit drugs (%)	0.8	0.2	0.5	1.2	0.3	0.8	2.3	1.2	1.8

Source: Rehm et al. (2003d)

Source: WHO  Global Status Report on Alcohol 2004, p.51

Alcohol

Table 4: Top 20 countries with highest beverage-specific adult per capita [APC] consumption

Table 6: Rate of last year abstainers among the adult population

Table 7: Heavy drinkers among the adult population

Table 8: Heavy episodic drinkers among the adult population

Table 9: Alcohol dependence among adult population

Table 10: Heavy episodic drinkers among youths

Table 11: Heavy episodic drinkers among young adults aged 18-24 years old

Table 13: Relative risks for beneficial alcohol-related health effects for different drinking categories (compared to abstainers)

Table 15: Attributable fractions of acute alcohol-related health effects in the adult general population

Table 16: Global burden of disease in 2000 attributable to alcohol according to major disease categories (DALYs in 000s)

Table 17: Burden of disease in 2000 attributable to tobacco, alcohol and drugs by developing status and sex

Table 18: Characteristics of adult alcohol consumption in different regions of the world 2000 (population weighted averages)

Table 19: Alcohol-related harm in different regions of the world (population weighted averages), DALYs (000s)

Table 20: Selected population alcohol-attributable fractions, by disease category, sex and level of development (% DALYs for each cause) in 2000

Table 21: Standardized mortality rates (per 100 000) for acute and chronic disease and injury, by WHO regional subgroupings (data shown is for most recent year available)

Table 21 [bis]: Social and economic costs of alcohol abuse for selected countries

Figure 3: Population weighted means of the recorded adult per capita consumption in the WHO Regions 1961-1999

Figure 4: Model of alcohol consumption, mediating variables, and short-term and longterm consequences

Figure 5: Global disease burden (in DALYs) in 2001 from alcohol use disorders, by age group and sex

Figure 6: Global deaths in 2001 from alcohol use disorders, by age group and sex

Footnote on the meaning of "adults"

Table 3: Total recorded alcohol per capita consumption (15+)

Table 5: Estimated volume of unrecorded consumption in litres of pure alcohol per capita for population older than 15 for the years after 1995

Case example 1: India

Case example 2: Venezuela

Case example 3: Malaysia

Case example 4: Uganda

Case example 5: Botswana

Case example 6: Ethiopia

Case example 7: Egypt

Case example 8: Ghana

Case example 9: Kenya

Case example 10: United Republic of Tanzania

Case example 1: Botswana

Case example 2: Nepal

Case example 3: Cameroon

Case example 4: India

Case example 5: Malaysia