LV · 2022 · tps00149
Death due to drugs dependence, by sex
Latvia, 2022
In 2022, Latvia's death due to drugs dependence, by sex decreased by 76.2% compared to 2021, reaching 0.10.
Latvia accounts for 12.8% of the EU-27 total of 0.78.
Latvia ranks 22nd out of 24 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 54.5% (from 0.22 in 2017).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00149, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.