One in 20 deaths is attributed to alcohol, killing 3 million people every year, the youth being the worst hit

The World Health Organization has come up with some shocking revelations related to alcohol. In this regard, WHO presented a report on Tuesday saying that about 3 million people die annually due to alcohol. Also, he said that the mortality rate decreased slightly in recent years. In this new report, the World Health Organization said that even though the figures are declining, they remain 'unacceptably high'.

This latest report presented on alcohol and health describes that about one in 20 deaths worldwide each year can be related to drinking alcohol. This can result in the death toll from drunk driving, alcohol-related violence, and abuse, including a variety of diseases and disorders.

According to the report, 2.6 million deaths in 2019 were related to alcohol consumption, which comes out to the latest now-available figure of 4.7 percent of all worldwide deaths this year. As reported, nearly three-quarters of the fatalities were those of men.

According to the WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghereyesus, "Drug abuse is a serious harm to health at the individual level. Its consumption increases the risk of chronic diseases and mental health conditions and tragically leads to millions of premature, preventable deaths every year."

He said internationally that, since 2010, there has been a reduction in alcohol consumption and related harm, but health and social burdens are still too high. As noted by the Director-General of WHO, this trend is hitting hard on the young.

According to WHO, in 2019, the most significant relation of alcohol to deaths at 13 percent accounts for possibilities that involve death among people between the ages of 20 and 39 years. Chronic alcohol consumption can lead to many health problems, ranging from cirrhosis of the liver to some cancers. Of the deaths it attributes to in 2019, about 1.6 million were from non-communicable diseases. Of these, some 474,000 were from cardiovascular diseases, 401,000 from cancer, and 724,000 from injuries—including traffic accidents and self-harm. Consuming alcohol also makes people more vulnerable to infectious diseases like tuberculosis, HIV, and pneumonia, said the report.