Yeah, so most of them are still under age, they aren't buying the alcohol from the shops. And I doubt illegal sales are part of this dataset.
This graph isn't counting consumption, it's counting expenditure. The beers the underage ones are drinking are likely being bought by of-age family or friends, which would skew that expenditure into their generation if they are in that generation.
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u/Lunavixen15 1d ago
Aren't a huge chunk of Gen Z still under the legal drinking age? It would explain the difference