LV · 2020 · tps00149
Death due to drugs dependence, by sex
Latvia, 2020
In 2020, Latvia's death due to drugs dependence, by sex increased by 31.2% compared to 2019, reaching 0.42.
Latvia accounts for 60.0% of the EU-27 total of 0.70.
Latvia ranks 12th out of 25 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 10.5% (from 0.38 in 2015).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00149, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.