Could you compare the number of teenage deaths in the UK with the number in the US due to alcohol?

I believe that because teens in the UK are allowed to drink they are wiser in choices they make about alochol. Anybody have the numbers?Could you compare the number of teenage deaths in the UK with the number in the US due to alcohol?
No, you can't really...UK statistics are about ';alcohol caused'; and US statistics are about ';alcohol related';. They're not the same thing, as something alcohol related might not be alcohol caused.





There are some people who say that the US government makes direct comparisons very difficult and only promotes statistics that support the over 21 law. For example, the average European drinks twice as much as an American does (promote that). Europeans have about the same life expectancy and lower rates of cancer and heart disease (don't promote that). The highest rates of alcoholism are in the US and Russia (don't promote that). More European youth binge drink than American youth (promote that, binging is more than 5 drink a day, even though in Europe two of those might be with food). Overall crime rates, violent crime rates and specifically alcohol related crime across Europe is a fraction of one major city in the US (don't promote that). And so on .... even though the EU is very comparable to the US in terms of population size.Could you compare the number of teenage deaths in the UK with the number in the US due to alcohol?
In the US about 5,000 under 21's a year die as a direct result of alcohol they have drunk themselves





Unfortunately I can't find figures for the UK that have a corresponding statistic.





It has however been shown, in the UK, that children from families that allow them to drink controlled amounts at home are less likely to go out and binge drink.





What coud be interesting in this field is to monitor the situation in France.





They currently have an age limit of 16 for alcohol, but are proposing raising it to 18.





This may be a good study case in years to come to see if the 2 year difference actually makes any difference.
or the fact the US has a population 5 times larger.....