LV · 2018 · tps00149
Death due to drugs dependence, by sex
Latvia, 2018
In 2018, Latvia's death due to drugs dependence, by sex increased by 36.4% compared to 2017, reaching 0.30.
Latvia accounts for 45.5% of the EU-27 total of 0.66.
Latvia ranks 14th out of 24 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 50.0% (from 0.20 in 2013).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00149, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.