Inequalities in alcohol-specific deaths

Men, people living in the North East and Scotland and people living in more deprived areas have the highest alcohol-specific death rates

This chart shows the alcohol-specific death rate (age-standardised) per 100,000 people by age, sex, ethnicity, region and deprivation in the UK in 2023.

• The alcohol-specific death rate increases for adults up to the age of 60–64 years. People aged 60–64 have the highest alcohol-specific death rate at 39.2 deaths per 100,000. For people older than this, the rate decreases to 2.5 deaths per 100,000 for people aged 90 or older.
• The alcohol-specific death rate for men is more than twice as high as for women – 21.9 deaths per 100,000 compared with 10.3.
• Scotland, Northern Ireland and the North East of England have the highest alcohol-specific death rates. The North East has the highest mortality rate of 25.7 deaths per 100,000, more than twice as high as the East of England, which has the lowest at 11.5.
• White people have the highest alcohol-specific death rates at 11.6 deaths per 100,000, compared with Pakistani people, who have the lowest rate at 1.5.
• The alcohol-specific death rate is more than three times higher for people living in the most deprived fifth of local areas than for people in the least deprived fifth of local areas (35.6 compared with 10.0 deaths per 100,000).