How many drinks did you have last week? None, say most Canadians – National [Video]

How many alcoholic drinks do you have in a week? That question was posed to Canadians in a survey and most of them said they had no drinks at all, a new Statistics Canada report shows.

In 2023, more than three-quarters (77 per cent) of adults living in Canada’s provinces reported drinking at least one alcoholic beverage in the past 12 months. To better understand regular drinking behaviour, the 2023 Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) asked about alcohol use in the past seven days.

Over half (54 per cent) of people aged 18 and over reported not drinking any alcohol at all during the past week, while 15 per cent reported drinking only one to two drinks in the seven days. The survey said 15 per cent of respondents said they had between three and six drinks and another 15 per cent had seven drinks or more in the last seven days.