Alcohol consumption (i21)

Definition: share of the population aged 15 and over reporting daily drinking of alcohol. The data comes from the National Health Surveys carried out by the Scientific Institute of Public Health/Sciensano. Eurostat data are used for international comparisons. As these indicators are based on surveys, a margin of uncertainty should be taken into account. This margin of uncertainty increases as the indicator is calculated on smaller sub-populations. The Sciensano website presents the data with confidence intervals and for European data, they are available from Eurostat upon request.