Determinants of Per Capita Alcohol Consumption in Africa: A Cross-section Approach

Roman Grynberg (), Vijayakumar Kandaswamy (), Fwasa K Singogo () and Lukas Kumonika ()
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Roman Grynberg: University of Namibia
Vijayakumar Kandaswamy: University of Namibia
Fwasa K Singogo: Lusaka Zambia
Lukas Kumonika: Namibian Statistical Agency

Tanzanian Economic Review, 2022, vol. 12, issue 2, 57-80

Abstract: This paper examines the economic, social and cultural factors that determine the per capita alcohol consumption in Africa. Empirical studies on alcohol consumption are very few, despite its negative social effects—especially of excessive alcohol consumption—on health and social behaviour, for example, gender-based violence. Some governments in Africa—e.g., South Africa and Namibia— responded to the Covid-19 pandemic by banning the purchase of alcohol, even for consumption in private residences, as an initial response to the pandemic. This was the motivation for this study: an attempt to understand the factors that determine the consumption of alcohol as excessive drinking of alcohol has sometimes been frowned upon even at the highest levels of government.1 This paper takes both a descriptive and formal analytical approach to the question of the levels of alcohol consumption on the continent, making use of the World Health Organization (WHO) database on alcohol, which is discussed in the section on data.

Keywords: Africa; alcohol; alcohol consumption per capita (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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