00:00New stats reveal the deadly toll of alcohol in Europe.
00:09Europe drinks more alcohol than any other region in the world,
00:13and new figures show just how high the human cost is.
00:17According to new WHO data, alcohol is behind one in every three deaths
00:23from injury and violence in Europe amounting to 145,000 people.
00:29Self-harm is the biggest killer, accounting for nearly 44,000 of alcohol-related injury deaths,
00:3683% of them are men.
00:39Road accidents fueled by alcohol are next, with 24,000 deaths,
00:44followed by alcohol-related falls, which took 20,000 lives.
00:49While overall drinking levels have been falling since the early 2000s,
00:53there are still significant differences in drinking patterns across Europe.
00:58For example, compared with under 20% in much of Western and Southern Europe,
01:03alcohol-related fatal injuries in Eastern European countries
01:07exceeded 60% of all deaths linked to injury and violence.
01:12Some of the highest rates of alcohol-related fatal injuries were reported in Latvia, Lithuania and Russia.
01:19In general, people aged 35 to 39 are the most vulnerable,
01:24while, gender-wise, prevalence is higher among men than women.
01:29For example, people aged 35 to 39 are the most vulnerable,
01:34but not women.
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