28 Percent of Australian Women Drink Alcohol While Pregnant: Study

The survey of 21,000 people also found 77 percent of Australians had at least one alcoholic drink in the last year.

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More than one in four women in Australia drink alcohol while they are pregnant, a new national drug strategy household survey has revealed.

A total of 28 percent who had been pregnant in the 12 months preceding the study drunk alcohol while pregnant, a 2022 to 2023 Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) (pdf) study of 21,000 Australians showed.