The region where people consume the most alcohol on a daily basis in France is Occitania, according to data published Tuesday by the public health agency France. At the bottom of the ranking, Ile-de-France is the region where the proportion of people who drink alcohol every day is the lowest.
Occitanie is above the national average (10%) with 12.6% of adults aged 18 to 75 who drink alcohol daily, compared to 7.1% in Ile-de-France, notes Health public in France, while the “Défi de janvier” operation is currently underway, launched by associations and which consists of stopping drinking alcohol for a month. The other regions where daily consumption is the highest are New Aquitaine (12.3%) and Hauts-de-France (11.5%), and the region where it is the lowest are Normandy (7, 9%) and the Pays-de-la-Loire (8.1%). Finally, in overseas France, daily consumption is significantly lower than in mainland France (5.2% in Guyana, 5.8% in Reunion, 6.9% in Guadeloupe and 7% in Martinique).
Two ways of doing things in Europe
Like daily consumption, significant occasional alcohol consumption also varies by region. This is the monthly consumption of six or more drinks on one occasion. Here again, Ile-de-France has the lowest figures: this concerns 13.9% of adults, compared to 20.5% in Brittany, the region where this consumption is the highest. The national average is 16.2%.
Since 2005, this very specific consumption, which corresponds to Anglo-Saxon binge drinking, has particularly increased in Brittany, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Normandy or Ile-de-France. "These data confirm the trends observed in Europe" where "behavior tends to become uniform", despite the historical coexistence of two cultural models: "A Latin model of regular use of alcohol opposed to a Nordic and Anglo-Saxon model less frequent but more important consumption ”.
Wine to the south, beer to the north
Public health France also notes that the alcohols consumed are not the same depending on the region: the northern, eastern and Brittany regions consume more beer than the rest of the country, while wine consumption is higher in New Aquitaine, Occitania and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, regions of high wine production. Finally, the health agency has set up a new indicator, which measures the responsibility of alcohol in emergency rooms.
On an average daily basis, for men, between 1.2% (Corsica) and 3.1% (Brittany) emergency visits are directly linked to alcohol consumption. This rate climbs to 7.3% for Réunion. Alcohol consumption is one of the main causes of preventable mortality "with 41,000 deaths in 2015", 30,000 in men and 11,000 in women, reminds Public Health France.
According to the health agency, 23.6% of adults aged 18-75 exceeded the consumption benchmarks in 2017 (maximum 10 drinks per week, maximum 2 drinks per day, and days in the week without consumption). In addition, "10% of 18-75 year olds alone consume 58% of the alcohol consumed".
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