“According to the 2024 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), 228.4 million people ages 12 and older (79.2% in this age group) reported that they drank alcohol at some point in their lifetime.^1,2 This includes:

• 113.7 million males ages 12 and older (80.6% in this age group)^1,2
• 114.7 million females ages 12 and older (77.9% in this age group)^1,2
• 934,000 American Indian or Alaska Native people ages 12 and older (68.5% in this age group)^1,2
• 11.1 million Asian people ages 12 and older (59.7% in this age group)^1,2
• 25.1 million Black or African American people ages 12 and older (71.1% in this age group)^1,2
• 145.7 million White people ages 12 and older (85.4% in this age group)^1,2
• 5.1 million people of two or more races ages 12 and older (79.2% in this age group)^1,2
• 39.6 million Hispanic or Latino people ages 12 and older (72.5% in this age group)^1,2
• Estimates for Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander people ages 12 and older were not presented because they were based on a relatively small number of respondents or had a large margin of error.^1,2

• In 2022, the total cost for alcohol-associated liver disease in the United States was $31 billion.² 
• About 178,000 (about 5% of all) yearly deaths from excessive alcohol occurred in 2020 and 2021 in the United States, an increase of approximately 29% compared to 2016 and 2017.³“

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism – NIH                      (Alcohol Use in the United States: Age Groups and Demographic Characteristics | National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA))