Hungarian youth the heaviest drinkers in Europe?!

The World Health Organisation has recently published a study about drinking trends in 36 European countries – reports The Telegraph. Hungarians finished on the very top of the list, with 41.2% of 15-year-old Hungarian boys admitting that they have been drunk more than twice in their life.

The study was carried out by the Scottish University of St Andrews, and it analysed the drinking habits of 15-year-old teenagers, between 2002 and 2014. Overall, it seems that the number of teenagers who admitted to being drunk at least twice in their life is decreasing in most countries. However, both Hungarian girls and boys are still in the top 3 of their respective lists, with Hungarian boys being in the absolute lead.

Over 33% of Hungarian girls aged 15 have been drunk at least twice – making them 3rd on the list. Denmark is in 1st place, with 37.6%, with Wales and Hungary following very close together. Germany, for example, where teenagers can legally get certain drinks already at age 14, as long as they are in the company of an adult, is in 16th place.

This means that over 10% more Hungarian teenage girls have experienced drunkenness at age 15 than German girls have.

Italy and Romania are close to the bottom of the list, with barely more than 10% of 15-year-old girls having been drunk more than twice, while Israel is in very last place, with only 5.4%.