Drinkaware monitors
Find the Drinkaware Monitors that inform our understanding of general patterns of drinking among UK adults.
Drinkaware Monitor 2026: Understanding Increasing-Risk Drinking
In this report we explore the behaviours, attitudes and barriers that shape alcohol consumption among increasing-risk drinkers in the UK.
What is the Drinkaware Monitor?
Every year we commissions a survey to track and understand the nation’s drinking. Watch the video below to find out more.
This research informs our understanding of general patterns of drinking among UK adults, people’s experiences with cutting back and the drinking habits of young people and their parents.
Note: Monitor reports from 2018 onwards are not comparable to previous years due to changes in methodology.
Recent Drinkaware Monitors
Drinkaware is committed to ensure our work is informed by up-to-date evidence on UK drinking attitudes and behaviours. We invite external academics to access the rich data for independent analysis.
Drinkaware Monitor 2026: Drinking trends
In this report we explore moderation and the moments that matter. This includes drinking occasion, unit consumption, drinking frequency and riskier drinking behaviours.
Drinkaware Monitor 2025: Relationships with alcohol
In 2025, we explored how UK drinkers think about their own drinking, how and why they are moderating, and the prevalence of moderate drinking within social circles.
Drinkaware Monitor 2024: What do we know about drinking?
In 2024, we examined UK adults’ ability to recognise the signs of problem drinking, their perceptions of what constitutes risky drinking, and stigma towards those with alcohol problems.
Previous Drinkaware Monitors
Drinkaware Monitor 2023
In 2023, we looked at concern about other people's drinking and whether individuals act on their concerns by initiating conversations with their partners, friends, or family.
Drinkaware Monitor 2022
In 2022, we looked at the impact of alcohol that extends beyond the drinker – to family, friends, co-workers, and strangers.
Drinkaware Monitor 2021
In 2021, we looked at the nation's drinking more than one year into the coronavirus pandemic.
Drinkaware Monitor 2020
This year we wanted to understand the impact the pandemic had on the nation's drinking.
Drinkaware Monitor 2019
In 2019 we investigated drinking behaviours, and attitudes and experiences of peer pressure to drink (or to drink more than initially intended).
Drinkaware Monitor 2018
We investigated drinking habits, alcohol moderation and how alcohol fits into everyday life.