One In Four Drink At 'Harmful Level'

Adults in Jersey drank an average of around eight pints of beer or two and a half bottles of wine a week in 2019.

The government has published its 'Alcohol Profile' report, which shows the effect it has on islanders' health and wellbeing.

The average annual amount of pure alcohol consumed per adult in 2019 was 17% higher in Jersey than the UK at 11.5 litres (compared to 9.8 litres)

One in four drinkers reported drinking at 'potentially hazardous or harmful levels.'

Alcohol played a role in almost one in five of all crimes reported in Jersey in 2020, with a third of offences in town at night alcohol-related.

777 hospital admissions in 2019 were due to alcohol, as were 35 deaths between 2018 and 2020.

In 2020,  claims due to alcohol-related sickness totalled £537,500. Almost half that sum was due to around 65 claims related specifically to alcoholism.

The number of 16 to 34 year olds that are tee-total has doubled since 2014.

14% of adults here reported not drinking any alcohol, compared to 20% in England.