The WHO source document generally uses "adults" to refer to people 15 years and older.
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