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Hungary, one of the drunkest nations in the EU?
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According to hvg.hu, there are hardly any countries that spend more on alcoholic beverages than Hungary. Based on a recent research by Eurostat, it is brought to light that the Hungarians spend around 3% of their revenue on the purchase of these beverages.
As the late results of Eurostat point out, Hungarians spent 521 billion forints (1.66 billion euros) on intoxicants in 2016. What is surprising is that this result has not changed for quite a long time. Therefore, Hungary is still the 7th most alcohol-dependent country in the EU on the list which calculates what rate of the revenue is spent on alcohol in each of the participant countries.
Among the top 3, we can find 3 Baltic countries: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Apart from them, only the Polish, the Czech and the Finnish preceded Hungary. It is also quite clear from the research that it is in Eastern and Central Europe where people consume the most alcohol.
Not a very accurate survey if it assumes consumption is based purely on purchases. Many of the poorer class people actually make their own liquor, wind and beer. This survey does not show that consumption. Spain and Portugal & Greece could come out to be winners here.
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I would say Slovakia, from what I’ve seen.