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What Percentage of Young People Are Underage Drinkers?

April 26, 2017drinkers PERCENTAGE underage young people

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What Percentage of Young People Are Underage Drinkers?

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More than one quarter (28.1 percent) of persons aged 12 to 20 (an estimated 10.8 million persons) used alcohol in the past month. More than half (51.1 percent) of those aged 18 to 20 were current alcohol users compared with 25.9 percent of those aged 15 to 17 and 6.1 percent of those aged 12 to 14. Underage males were more likely than their female counterparts to be current alcohol users (28.8 vs. 27.4 percent).