PT · 2019 · tps00149
Death due to drugs dependence, by sex
Portugal, 2019
In 2019, Portugal's death due to drugs dependence, by sex increased by 57.1% compared to 2018, reaching 0.22.
Portugal accounts for 33.3% of the EU-27 total of 0.66.
Portugal ranks 17th 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 120.0% (from 0.10 in 2014).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00149, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.