I'd take a guess and say the US has more extremes: puritans who don't drink at all and heavy drinkers. Isn't it, for example, pretty common to have a glass of

I'd take a guess and say the US has more extremes: puritans who don't drink at all and heavy drinkers. Isn't it, for example, pretty common to have a glass of wine at lunch in France? If 50% of french do that, that average is already way more spread than in a country where 30% don't drink at all.