Australians are going sour on sweet drinks.

Fewer people are consuming soft drinks than a decade ago, data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics reveals.

One-in-four kids consume sweetened drinks, marking a significant drop from nearly three-in-four children in 1995, according to an ABS report .

Almost half of all Australians consumed sugary drinks in 1995.

This dropped to 42.2 per cent in 2011-2012, but has now plummeted to less than 30 per cent, the ABS says.

Sweetened beverages in the dataset includes any drinks that contain added sugar or artificial sweeteners, such as diet drinks.

Health organisations say the report, released on Friday, was encouraging, but more work was needed to incentivise better choices.

Food for Health Alliance executive manager Jane Martin noted obes

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