About 10% of all people (including those who do not drink) are considered problem drinkers - meaning that they have significant problems when drinking that they don't have otherwise. Many problem drinkers will quit drinking after a particularly embarrassing or troubling experience. The definition of alcoholic is tough to pin down, but it's thought that the alcoholic is the person who continues to drink even way after the costs outweigh the benefits. Of people who do drink, these are probably about 3%, but again this is a really tough question due to various understandings of what constitutes Alcoholism, trouble identifying and classifying alcoholics, and the fact that it's a pretty controversial topic to start with.
The majority of the world's population consumes alcoholic beverages. Only a minority are abstainers, a state of being that is a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. Drinking alcohol reduces the risk of death from such diseases by about 40%.
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that there are about 2 billion people worldwide who consume Alcoholic Beverages and 76.3 million with diagnosable alcohol use disorders
usually most people don't drink. Roughly 80% are alcohloics.
That depends on age, area of residence, gender, income level, religion, and many other factors.
Roughly 80% drink some alcohol.
One hundred percent.
more then 85%
67
a lot
If you drink too much of it, yes. You can get alcohol poisoning from any percentage alcohol if you drink too much of it.
20
50
It's a drink with a small percentage of alcohol.
20%
mostly water and alcohol
abv x percentage of alcohol
0.08 is the legal limit for blood-alcohol percentage.
roughly 45% of Americans drink some form of carbonated beverages stated by the FDA.
The percentage of Americans that drink tea or coffee to start their mornings range from 50 percent to 80 percent. 50 percent of Americans drink coffee at least once a day.
A large but unknown proportion.