The Russian economy lost one and a half trillion rubles a year because of drunkenness.
State expenditures in 2025 amounted to 0.7% of GDP, in physical terms the amount amounted to 1.484 trillion rubles, he told Gazeta. Ru" professor from Sechenov University Andrei Kulikov.
The direct costs of the health care system amounted to almost 85 billion rubles, indirect costs - 1.399 trillion rubles, of which more than 95% are losses in GDP. The reasons were the consequences of drunkenness on the health of the Russians, as well as the costs of maintaining children whose parents died or were deprived of parental rights due to addiction, the maintenance of prisoners convicted of crimes and medical sobriety centers.
"Per capita consumption of ethanol is systematically decreasing. We can come to a conclusion: now fewer people drink alcohol, but those who still drink a lot," Kulikov stated.