2023 : National + State Data NCDAS

NHTSA demonstrates its commitment to eliminating drunk driving through research, public awareness campaigns, and state safety grant programs. In 2022, among children (14 and younger) killed in motor vehicle crashes, 25% were killed in drunk-driving crashes. Of those deaths, more than half the time (57%) the child killed was in the vehicle driven by the drunk driver. In South Africa and Papua New Guinea, more than half of all traffic deaths are attributable to alcohol consumption. The map shows the share of all road traffic deaths attributed to alcohol consumption over the national legal limit for alcohol consumption.

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Alcohol consumption has a causal impact on more than 200 health conditions (diseases and injuries). This interactive chart shows the average share of household expenditure that is spent on alcohol. The charts show global consumption of spirits, which are distilled alcoholic drinks, including gin, rum, whisky, tequila, and vodka. Alcohol consumption – whilst a risk factor for a number of health outcomes – typically has the greatest negative impacts when consumed within heavy sessions. Again, the prevalence of drinking across North Africa and the Middle East is notably lower than elsewhere. Typically, 5 to 10 percent of adults across these regions drank in the preceding year, and in a number of countries, this was below 5 percent.

Download this chart Figure 2: Homicide decreased by 4% in the last year

Explore topics related to alcohol misuse and treatment, underage drinking, the effects of alcohol on the human body, and more. The NDQIS methodology may also lead to an increase in offences identified as having an online element. For most of the police forces that are not yet submitting data via NDQIS, force analysts have started to prepare and improve data quality ahead of the transition. Since April 2024, online crime data include crimes using SMS and phone calls made over online platforms. Therefore, the latest year’s data are not directly comparable with previous years. The NDQIS methodology will increase the number of offences identified as being domestic abuse-related.

Figure 4: Police recorded firearms offences saw a 17% decrease compared with the year ending September 2023

Control data were integrated directly into the model by combining the alcohol policy intervention variable with a dichotomous area variable (study area verses control)(e.g., 70). Alcohol supply restrictions continue to relax across the globe, leading to increases in disease 1,2, dependency 3, injury 4,5, and crime 6–11. Of particular concern, is the large proportion (~30%) of criminal offences committed while intoxicated 12–15.

Many alcohol policy levers (e.g. taxation, availability and advertising restrictions) are aimed at reducing consumption at the population level. The extent that these measures will affect violence, however, depends upon the relationship between population level consumption and violence. Previous research 3–5 suggests that per-capita alcohol consumption is an important determinant of homicide rates, with a stronger relationship in Northern Europe where drinking has tended to be more intoxication-oriented than in the rest of the continent 5. However, the pattern is not wholly consistent in that one study found a weaker relationship in some Eastern European countries despite their pattern of intoxication-oriented drinking 4, suggesting that other factors besides drinking pattern affect the relationship. Over the past 10 years, there has been a gradual decrease in the proportion of people experiencing violence with and without injury, theft, criminal damage, and domestic abuse. However, stalking has remained relatively flat and sexual assault has increased after previously decreasing from YE March 2005 to YE March 2014.

• Explore statistics on alcohol-related deaths and emergency visits in the United States.
• Connecticut’s alcohol-related death rate is slightly below the national average.
• According to NeighborhoodScout’s analysis of FBI reported crime data, your chance of becoming a victim of one of these crimes in New York is one in 129.
• The ‚disease burden‘ – measured in Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) – considers mortality and years lived with disability or health burden.
• This is different from how the police define harassment, as explained in the Home Office Crime Recording Rules for frontline officers and staff publication, where the behaviour must occur on more than one occasion.
• Therefore, the latest year’s data are not directly comparable with previous years.
• For example, a value of 3.6 for bipolar disorder indicates that illicit drug dependency became more than three times more likely in individuals with bipolar disorder than those without.

Idaho Alcohol Abuse Statistics

A large variety of modelling and exploratory techniques were applied to study the effects of alcohol exposure on criminal behaviour (Table 4). Policy makers are interested in how exposure to alcohol affects overall population rates of crime, while also wanting to address neighbour needs for policing around troublesome alcohol establishments, local zoning policy, or approval of new alcohol establishments 2. Therefore, estimation and prediction techniques were mindfully selected to provide guidelines for alcohol-crime prevention. We address the strengths and weaknesses of common quantitative approaches, and data collection methods to guide future alcohol-crime research. The interview-administered questions give headline estimates of CSEW crime and include theft, robbery, criminal damage, fraud, computer misuse, and violence with or without injury.

Figure 3: Knife-enabled crime recorded by the police increased in the last year

People often think they are “fine” after several drinks – but in fact, the failure to recognize alcohol impairment is often a symptom of impairment. The data produced by third parties and made available by Our World in Data is subject to the license terms from the original third-party authors. We will always indicate the original source of the data in our documentation, so you should always check the license of any such third-party data before use and redistribution. All visualizations, data, and alcohol related crime statistics code produced by Our World in Data are completely open access under the Creative Commons BY license. You have the permission to use, distribute, and reproduce these in any medium, provided the source and authors are credited.

• They know how to handle the emotional and physical toll of being both the victim and the perpetrator of a crime.
• Knife-enabled crime increased by 4% in the year ending (YE) September 2024 (to 55,008 offences) compared with YE September 2023 (52,969 offences).
• The charts show global consumption of beer, first in terms of beer as a share of total alcohol consumption, and then the estimated average consumption per person.
• Alcohol is also used by some sexual predators to lower the inhibitions of their victims or even incapacitate them so that they are unable to resist.
• American Addiction Centers provides 24-hour medical detox, premium rehabilitation treatment, and ongoing care.
• So, a value of 6 liters of pure alcohol per person per year is equivalent to 50 liters of wine.
• The mean score given for alcohol-related violent incidents was 6.7, significantly lower than non alcohol-related violent incidents, where the mean score was 7.3 (Appendix Table 5.09 (1.42 Mb Excel sheet)).

Police recorded crime data are better than the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) for measuring trends in serious but less common violence, such as offences involving a knife or sharp instrument (knife-enabled crime). Knife-enabled crime increased by 4% in the year ending (YE) September 2024 (to 55,008 offences) compared with YE September 2023 (52,969 offences). This was similar to YE March 2020, before the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic (55,170 offences). The Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) is an interviewer-administered face-to-face survey asking people (aged 16 years and over) resident in households about their experiences of crime in the past year. For the population and offence types it covers, it provides a reliable measure of crime trends, unaffected by police reporting or recording changes. Crime against households and people aged 16 years and over, using data from police recorded crime and the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW).