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Below is a graph which shows the percentage of people that drink in English regions, plus the Home Nations.




Source: Guardian Data Stores


This graph outlines the percentage of adults who drank at least once a week in each region of the UK. Here we can see that Yorkshire and the South East had the highest percentage (67%) whilst London had the lowest (51%). London’s percentage is considerably lower than the average for England (63%) and for Great Britain (62%). Another suprising figure is that Scotland has the lowest percentage of all the three home nations (56%) compared to England (63%) and Wales (57%).

From this data we can start to explore which areas of the country have the highest percentage of drinkers (casual or otherwise). Here we see that Yorkshire and the South East have the highest percentage of drinkers. This is concistant with the publication that drinkers in Yorkshire are more likely to exceed the RDA for alcohol.