Table 9: Alcohol dependence among adult population
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| Country |
Year |
Total (%) |
Male (%) |
Female (%) |
Measure |
a Last year alcohol dependence
b No definition of alcohol dependence given.
c Alcohol dependence classification was based on a set of questions which examined aspects of alcohol tolerance (for e.g. needing more to have an effect), withdrawal, loss of control, and social or physical problems related to alcohol use in daily life.
d Lifetime alcohol dependence
e Alcohol dependency/alcoholic was defined as an individual that presents/displays the inability to abstain from the consumption of spirits or is unable to stop when consuming spirits as well as symptoms of greater deprivation (e.g. tremors).
f Diminuer entourage trop alcohol (Reduce alcohol-based surroundings) test
g Alcohol dependence or abuse
Note: Countries in bold indicate that surveys were not national. Please refer to individual country profiles for details of references/sources used.
|
| Argentina a |
1999 |
4.31 |
6.67 |
1.74 |
ICD-10 |
| Australia a |
1997 |
3.5 |
5.2 |
1.8 |
ICD-10 |
| Austria b |
1996 |
2.2 |
|
|
CAGE |
| Belgium b |
2001 |
7.0 |
9.5 |
3.6 |
N.A. |
| Brazil b |
2001 |
11.2 |
17.1 |
5.7 |
N.A. |
| Canada c |
2002 |
9.3 |
14.0 |
4.5 |
mixed |
| Chile d |
|
6.4 |
11.0 |
2.1 |
DSM-III-R |
| China b |
2001 |
3.8 |
6.6 |
0.2 |
DSM-III-R |
| Colombia a |
2000-2001 |
4.8 |
9.8 |
2.2 |
ICD-10 |
| Costa Rica b,e |
2000-2001 |
7.0 |
10.8 |
2.4 |
mixed |
| Egypt a |
2000-2001 |
0.2 |
0.4 |
0.0 |
ICD-10 |
| Ethiopia d |
1994 |
1.0 |
1.9 |
0.1 |
CAGE/CIDI |
| Finland b |
2000 |
4.0 |
6.5 |
1.5 |
DSM-IV |
| France b |
2000 |
|
13.3 |
4.1 |
DETAf |
| Georgia a |
2000-2001 |
3.2 |
7.3 |
0.2 |
ICD-10 |
| Germany b |
2000 |
3.8 |
6.0 |
1.5 |
DSM-IV |
| India a |
2000-2001 |
3.6 |
6.8 |
0.7 |
ICD-10 |
| Indonesia a |
2000-2001 |
1.0 |
1.7 |
0.3 |
ICD-10 |
| Iran e |
|
7.3 |
11.9 |
2.7 |
DSM-IV |
| Japan d |
1997-1999 |
4.1 |
8.4 |
0.7 |
DSM-III-R |
| Mexico a |
2000-2001 |
1.8 |
4.2 |
0.2 |
ICD-10 |
| Netherlands (the) b |
1996 |
5.5 |
9.0 |
1.9 |
DSM-III-R |
| Nigeria a |
2001-2002 |
0.7 |
1.9 |
0.0 |
ICD-10 |
| Peru h |
2002 |
10.6 |
17.8 |
4.3 |
ICD-10 |
| Poland b |
1999 |
12.2 |
23.3 |
4.1 |
CAGE |
| Republic of Korea (the) a |
2003 |
4.3 |
6.9 |
1.7 |
CIDI |
| Singapore a |
2001-2002 |
0.6 |
1.1 |
0.2 |
ICD-10 |
| Slovakia A |
2001-2002 |
4.8 |
9.4 |
1.1 |
ICD-10 |
| South Africa d |
1998 |
|
27.6 |
9.9 |
CAGE |
| Syrian Arab Republic (the) a |
2001-2002 |
0.2 |
0.5 |
0.0 |
ICD-10 |
| Turkey a |
2001-2002 |
1.3 |
1.7 |
0.7 |
ICD-10 |
| The United Kingdom b |
|
4.7 |
7.5 |
2.1 |
ICD-10 |
| United States of America (the) g |
2002 |
7.7 |
10.8 |
4.8 |
DSM-IV |
| Uruguay b |
2001 |
5.0 |
8.5 |
1.3 |
DSM-IV |
Source: WHO
Global Status Report on Alcohol 2004, p.30
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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
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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
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