(CNN)
British people get drunk more than any other nationality, according to a new global survey.
The results of the 2019 Global Drug Survey, published Thursday, revealed that British respondents get drunk more times per year than people from anywhere else.
Adam Winstock, an addiction psychiatrist and founder of the Global Drug Survey, said British respondents are drinking too much, too often, regarding getting drunk as the point of a night out as opposed to enhancing the evening.
"We have never grasped moderation. It's not part of our culture or conversation," he said. "We need to learn that more fun with better health and fatter wallets can follow from a bit less, a bit less often."
And drinkers around the world should consider cutting down to benefit their health, Winstock said.
"Deaths due to alcoholic liver disease and cancer due to excessive alcohol consumption are on the rise, along with obesity and poorer mental health," he said. "Drinking too much makes all these worse; drinking less make them better."
Researchers spoke to 123,814 people from more than 30 countries in preparing the report, and they found that people on average got drunk 33 times in the previous 12 months.
Here are the ten countries that get drunk the most: The U.K., 51 days a year; the U.S., 50 days; Canada, 48; Australia, 47; Denmark, 42; India, 41; Ireland, 41; Mexico, 38; the Czech Republic, 37; and Finland, 35.
The results reflect the number of times that survey respondents said they got drunk, rather than the amount of alcohol consumed.
Those from English-speaking countries got drunk most often, according to the report, while participants from South American countries got drunk on the lowest number of occasions.
UK respondents said they got drunk 51 times in the past year, compared with 50 times for people in the United States, 48 in Canada and 47 in Australia.
Chilean respondents, on the other hand, reported getting drunk just 16 times a year and Colombians 22 times.
About 38% of survey participants said they wanted to drink less in the next year.
Consumption of alcohol is increasingly globally.
Research published in the journal The Lancet this month indicates that between 1990 and 2017, per capita adult alcohol consumption increased by nearly 0.7 liters (about the same in quarts) to 6.5 liters (6.9 quarts) annually around the world.
The number is predicted to reach 7.6 liters (8 quarts) by 2030.
By 2030, half of the world's adults will drink (up from 45% in 1990), while 40% will abstain (down from 46% in 1990). Additionally, 23% of adults will binge drink at least once a month, compared with just 18.5% who did so in 1990.
CNN's Susan Scutti contributed to this report.