SE · 2017 · tps00149
Death due to drugs dependence, by sex
Sweden, 2017
In 2017, Sweden's death due to drugs dependence, by sex decreased by 42.3% compared to 2016, reaching 0.30.
Sweden accounts for 51.7% of the EU-27 total of 0.58.
Sweden ranks 13th out of 23 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 7.1% (from 0.28 in 2012).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00149, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.