May 25: Wine edges out beer as the most widely drunk alcohol in Australia, although a smaller proportion of Australians are drinking both than five years ago in 2014 with 42.8% of Australian adults drinking wine in an average four weeks, down 2.3% from 2014, with 38.2% consuming beer, a decrease of 0.6% , and the number of Australians drinking alcohol has come down to 67.5% from 70.1% 5 years ago, according to a 5-yearly report based on Research involving face-to-face interviews with over 50,000 consumers in their homes
These are some of the latest findings from Alcohol Consumption Currency Report conducted by Roy Morgan in March 2019. The in-depth survey includes detailed questioning of over 15,000 regarding their alcoholic drinking habits.
Wine is consumed by 42.8% of the Australian adults, according to the population survey, ahead of beer with 38.2% and spirits on 26.3%. Cider is consumed by 11.4%, showing an increase from 11.1% five years ago, making it the only type of alcohol to increase. The incidence of cider drinkers is now ahead of RTD (10.8%), Liqueurs (6.5%) and Fortified Wine (4.9%). The biggest decline was for wine (2.3%), followed by liqueurs (1.2%), RTD (0.9%) and beer ( 0.6%) closing the gap marginally to wine as Australia’s most widely drunk type of alcohol.
Wine more popular but more beer drunk
Although wine is the most popular alcoholic drink in terms of the number of drinkers, beer is clearly the top in terms of volume based on glasses. The following chart shows that beer accounts for 45% of the volume of alcoholic drinks consumed- more than wine (29.1%) and spirits (13.2%) combined. However, since 2014 gains in share of volume went up for wine (2.4%) while beer went down by 2.8%.
Wine for women beer for men
There are big differences between the alcohol preferences of women and men. The vast majority of alcohol drinkers are men (66.6%)- almost double the overall volume of alcohol drunk by women (33.4%).The most popular alcohol by volume for women is wine which accounts for 48.2% of the volume of alcohol drunk by women. Well behind is beer which comprises 18.3%, spirits (15.2%), RTD (7.5%), Cider (5.8%), Liqueurs (2%), Fortified Wine (1.1%) and other types of alcohol (1.9%). For men it is beer which takes 58.4% share of the volume of alcohol consumed by men. Wine comprises 19.5% of the volume and is the second most popular drink, followed by spirits (12.2%).
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