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Geneva, Switzerland—Alcohol kills nearly three million people annually, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, adding that while the death rate had dropped slightly in recent years it remained “unacceptably high.”
He pointed out that there had been “some reduction in alcohol consumption and related harm worldwide since 2010.” Of all fatalities it caused in 2019, the report found that an estimated 1.6 million were from noncommunicable diseases. An estimated 209 million people lived with alcohol dependence in 2019—3.7 percent of the global population.
The lowest consumption was in predominantly Muslim countries in Northern Africa, the Middle East and Asia, the report said.Among people who drank alcohol in 2019, the report determined they consumed 27 grams of pure alcohol per day on average.
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