PT · 2021 · tps00149
Death due to drugs dependence, by sex
Portugal, 2021
In 2021, Portugal's death due to drugs dependence, by sex increased by 41.7% compared to 2020, reaching 0.34.
Portugal accounts for 47.2% of the EU-27 total of 0.72.
Portugal ranks 14th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 466.7% (from 0.06 in 2016).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00149, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.