4 days ago - Puerto Rico, a territory of the United States, has maintained a drinking age of 18. United States customs laws stipulate that no person under the age of 21 may bring any type or quantity of alcohol into the country. Most countries in Europe have set 18 as the minimum age to purchase alcohol.

November 8, 2024 - The minimum drinking age in bars is 18, but many bars won’t let people under 20 (or even 25) in. That’s because the minimum age to purchase alcohol over 3.5% ABV is 20. You can purchase alcohol under 3.5% ABV at 18.

January 18, 2025 - Teenage drinking remains widespread in Europe. To address concerns about its negative effects on health and cognition, many European countries have raised their minimum legal drinking age from 16 to 18 in recent decades. This column reports on evidence from Spain, where regions increased the ...

July 29, 2025 - Eighteen is by far the most common legal drinking age worldwide. It is the standard in much of Europe (France, Spain, Italy), Latin America (Brazil, Argentina, Mexico), Africa (Kenya, South Africa) and Oceania (Australia, New Zealand).

December 7, 2021 - Low minimum legal drinking ages (MLDAs), as prevalent in many European countries, are severely understudied. We use rich survey and administrative data to estimate the impact of the Austrian MLDA of 16 on teenage drinking behavior and morbidity.

Moreover, the Federal Government ... to show strong public support for the drinking age of 21 (Wagenaar 1993a). Question: Many Europeans let their children drink from an early age, and European countries do not have the same alcohol-related problems that we do...

July 12, 2020 - In the US, the legal drinking age is determined at a national level. At the time of this writing, it is 21 years of age. In all European countries, the legal drinking age is less than this, running from about 15 years old up to 20.

1 week ago - The Minimum Drinking Age in France is 18 for purchases and consumption of all alcoholic beverages. As of 2009, French teenagers could still buy wine, beer, and other fermented beverages at 16.

January 7, 2024 - It depend on the drink, in France, for soft alcohol like bear, wine it's 16 and harder like spirits is 18. But yeah... it's not quite enforced in many places. ... The number of people under the age of 25 who died in 2024 in Europe, the Americas, ...

January 4, 2005 - France age for beer and wine is an unenforced 16, 18 for hard stuff - my son grew up in France and was buying hard booze in supermarkets way before 18 so not always enforced. 16 is legal age in bars for beer and wine. Holland i believe is 16 ...

With increasingly mobile and interconnected youth across the EU, it makes perfect sense to send a clear public health message that a legal drinking age for alcohol across Europe is 18.

February 6, 2024 - In Europe, a prevailing inclination is to fix the legal drinking age at either 16 years, as evident in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, and Luxembourg, or at 18 years, as observed in France, Spain, and Italy.

Answer (1 of 72): There is no “right” drinking age. I would trust my 14-year-old kids to drink responsibly; and there are doubtless 50-year-olds out there who would be better off without access to the stuff.

1 month ago - A study by the RWI Essen found ... Issues) recommends raising the drinking age for all alcoholic beverages in Germany to 18 years....

WHO also has used these areas to ... habits. For example, Iceland and Norway, with a total alcohol consumption of about 7 liters per person age 15 and older, belong to the area “Europe A,” where the average alcohol consumption is 13 liters (i.e., almost twice that in ...

October 30, 2025 - Many European countries have raised the minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) from 16 to 18 over the past decades. These policies often comprise a bundle of reforms including restrictions on alcohol sales to minors, venue access limitations, and ...

April 1, 2025 - Europe’s legal age to drink is 18, which is 3 years younger than the US. According to UNEWS, European teens are able to familiarize themselves with drinking at a young age because they lose the temptation.

June 18, 2024 - Drinking Age In Europe Map by reddit user correiajoaoThis is actually a bit of a trick question, as several European countries including: Armenia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, and Russia have no formal laws on what age people are allowed to consume alcoholic beverages.

March 27, 2021 - Teenage binge drinking is more prevalent in Europe than in the US, where alcohol is forbidden to people under the age of 21. This column looks at the relationship between minimum legal drinking ages and alcohol abuse. Using administrative health and survey data from Austria, it finds significantly ...