The bar chart compares the number of people dying due to alcohol in 7 nations and the average beer consumption per capita in 2005.
Overall, countries that had the largest number of alcohol-related deaths, including the Czech Republic, Germany and Australia, also took the lead in beer drinking. Additionally, across all of the surveyed nations, the number of men whose deaths related to alcohol always outnumbered that of women.
In 2005, the Czech Republic had the highest total number of alcohol-related deaths, at 1,369,000, with 900,000 deaths from males, nearly doubling the number of females. Following closely was Germany, which had approximately 1,200,000 deaths, with one-sixth of these from females. The country with the third highest number of deaths was Austria, with 783,000 deaths from men, compared to only 130,000 from women. Regarding Ireland and Canada, their figures were mostly identical, at around 580,000, with the number of male deaths in Canada much higher than that in Ireland ( 505,000 compared to 413,000). The nation that had the fewest number of residents dying because of alcohol was Lithuania, with 125,000 deaths in total, and only 13,000 of those were from females.
Coming to the consumption of beer, the largest amount was for the residents of the Czech Republic, at 132 liters. Following were Germany, Austria, and Ireland, whose residents drank from 104 to 107 liters of beer per person. People who lived in Estonia consumed around 98 liters of beer, while the figure for those in Lithuania was 91 liters. Drinking the least was the Canadian, at only 81 liters of beer per capita.