Alcohol-Related Harm
Deaths, violence and disease from a substance most societies treat as unremarkable.
Severity score
52.1
Severe · default weighting
Trajectory
Steady
What this is
Alcohol contributes to liver disease, cancer, road deaths, violence and suicide. The burden falls hardest on working-age men and on families exposed to alcohol-related violence. Policy responses lag far behind those applied to tobacco.
Score breakdown
Each factor is a 0–100 relative severity index, not the raw figure or a specific time period. The actual counts and periods are listed under "Standardized Impact" on the right.
Loss of life
70Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
64People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
58Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
2Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
32Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.
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