date:Sep 27, 2018
rinking alcohol at age 13 or younger (25% of girls and 31% of boys) in 2014. This has fallen from 46% in 2002, with downward trends similar in magnitude for boys and girls in most countries.
While some countries saw no change at all, or only very small decreases, since 2002, the largest decline for drinking alcohol on a regular basis for both boys and girls was in England.
More than half (50.3%) of teenage boys in England drank weekly in 2002, compared with just 10% 2014, the research found. W