PT · 2017 · tps00149
Death due to drugs dependence, by sex
Portugal, 2017
In 2017, Portugal's death due to drugs dependence, by sex increased by 166.7% compared to 2016, reaching 0.16.
Portugal accounts for 27.6% of the EU-27 total of 0.58.
Portugal ranks 16th out of 23 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 33.3% (from 0.24 in 2012).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00149, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.