British Columbians drank a lot in 2020, and experts say it wasn’t entirely due to Covid, according to a new University of Victoria study.
Over the past 20 years, alcohol consumption in BC has gone from averages of 8.2 Litres of pure ethanol equivalent per year, to 9.3 Litres per person.
In more understandable terms, that works out to roughly two bottles of 12 percent wine per week.
Interior Health saw the highest rate of consumption at 13.69 Litres per person, while Northern Health fell in the middle at 10.78 Litres.
But according data from the study, alcohol consumption was already on the rise, pre-pandemic.
Since 2013, estimates show an 8 to 10 percent increase in consumption, while the pandemic has caused another 2 to 3 percent jump.
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