2020 - the equivalent to each adult in the country drinking 18 units a week. The report said this is the "lowest level seen in Scotland over the available time series (1994 onwards)", with the drop from 9.9 litres per person in 2019 the largest on record.
While the amount of pure alcohol sold per person north of the border was 6% higher than in England and Wales, this was the smallest difference recorded since 1994.
The report found almost a quarter (24%) of all adults reported exceeding the safe weekly drinking guideline of 14 units a week in 2019.This, however, was down from just over a third (34%) in 2003.There were 1,020 people whose deaths were described as being "wholly attributable to alcohol" in 2019 - an average of 20 people per.
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