The cheapest alcohol in Europe was in Hungary (the price level is below the EU by 27.3 percent), as well as in Romania (by 26.2 percent) and Bulgaria (by 19.5 percent). Such data was named in the European Statistical Agency Eurostat.
The highest cost of alcohol is fixed in Norway (151.2 percent above average for the EU). Next comes Iceland (139.4 percent above average) and Finland (by 92.7 percent).
According to the organization, the leaders of the European Union for the proportion of alcohol abuse cases in 2019 were Denmark (38 percent of the adult population at least once a month, more than 60 grams of pure ethanol drank for one reception), Romania and Luxembourg. More than a third of the EU adult residents (37.2 percent) drink daily or at least once a week.
Every day, alcohol is most often used in Portugal, Spain and Italy, less often in Latvia and Lithuania. Leaders in the daily use of alcohol in the EU were people older than 74 years.
The cost of the production of vodka in the current year increased by three percent in Russia, said the general director of the “Tatspirtprom” Ruslan Maxudov. According to him, the current situation gives a reason for the increase in prices in retail, and companies have to make every effort and even carry losses to keep them, because the consumer is sensitive to their level.