There are more alcohol-related deaths in men than in women. There were 1,152 alcohols-related deaths in 2014. Where alcohol was the underlying cause of deaths. 784 of those deaths were men, 368 were women. Over the year 1979s there have been roughly twice as many male deaths as female deaths. The 45-59 age group has had the largest number of alcohol-related deaths in almost every year since 1979.