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The pandemic turned even more Hungarians into alcoholics?
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Statistics constantly reveal that Hungarians are among the nations with the highest alcohol consumption. It was somewhat expected that as a result of the epidemic, we are consuming more alcohol worldwide. However, experts point out that Hungarians drink twice as much as the world average.
Alcohol sales increased by 291% worldwide during the pandemic, which is a shocking number, especially for us Hungarians who are at the forefront of the world when it comes to drinking. It is not known exactly how many alcoholics there are in Hungary; the 380 thousand given by the Central Statistical Office is not close to reality. Experts speak about 800 thousand, but the WHO said 900 thousand a few years ago. Are we an addicted nation? asks Pénzcentrum.
“We are at the forefront of alcohol consumption in Europe: we are roughly in the sixth to eighth place in terms of per capita consumption of concentrated alcohol,”
says addiction consultant Zsolt Nagy. According to pessimistic estimates, every Hungarian citizen, from infants to the elderly, consumes an average of 15 litres of concentrated alcohol per year. With this, we are really at the forefront, as the world average is around 6 litres.
Generally speaking Hungarians either drink themselves to death or eat themselves to death with their very unhealthy diet. Smoking also plays its part.