LV · 2019 · tps00149
Death due to drugs dependence, by sex
Latvia, 2019
In 2019, Latvia's death due to drugs dependence, by sex increased by 6.7% compared to 2018, reaching 0.32.
Latvia accounts for 48.5% of the EU-27 total of 0.66.
Latvia ranks 15th 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 60.0% (from 0.20 in 2014).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00149, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.