A narrative review of alcohol consumption as a risk factor for global burden of disease

Table 1 Proportion of global mortality and DALYs attributable to alcohol (net burden)

Year	Proportion of global mortality attributable to alcohol	Proportion of global DALYs attributable to alcohol	Reference
1990	1.5 %	3.5 %	[12, 155]
2000	3.2 % (W: 0.6 %; M: 5.6 %)	4.0 % (W: 1.3 %; M: 6.5 %)	[16, 156]
2004	3.8 % (W: 1.1 %; M: 6.3)	4.6 % (W: 1.4 %; M: 7.6 %)	[157]
2010	5.2 % (W: 3.1 %; M: 6.9 %)	3.9 % (W: 2.0 %; M: 5.4 %)	[10, 18]^a
2012	5.9 % (W: 4.0 %; M: 7.6 %)	5.1 % (W: 2.3 %; M: 7.4 %)	[9]
2013	5.1 % (W: 3.1 %; M: 6.8 %)	4.1 % (W: 1.9 %; M: 5.9 %)	[11, 18]^a
2015	GBD 2015 and WHO Global Status Report on Alcohol and Health to be published in 2016

^aThe given estimates for mortality are not available in the Lancet publications of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 and 2013 [10, 11]. They were obtained from GDB Compare [18]. Please note that these estimates may change when the methodology changes, so the date of assessment is important

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