Table DRCrime-4. Percentage of total drug law offences that are related to drug use or possession for use, 1996-2002
| Country | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | ||
| Austria | (1) | 86.5 | 84.7 | 86.7 | 88.5 | 89.8 | 88.9 | 89.5 | |
| Belgium | (2) | 52.7 | 67.1 | 64.3 | 61.9 | 70.4 | |||
| Czech Republic | (3) | 6.2 | 8.5 | 9.4 | 10.5 | ||||
| Finland | (4) | 52.4 | |||||||
| France | (3) | 72.3 | 78.9 | 82 | 83.5 | 82.7 | 84.8 | 84 | |
| Germany | (4) | 63 | 64 | 65.9 | 65.6 | 66.9 | 66 | 68 | |
| Hungary | (4) | 80.1 | 82.7 | 82.7 | 80.2 | 82.8 | |||
| Ireland | (4) | 64.6 | 68.4 | 77.2 | 79.9 | 79.8 | |||
| Luxembourg | (4) | 5.6 | 7.9 | 22.9 | 23 | 31.1 | 19.4 | 23.4 | |
| Norway | (4) | 35.4 | 34 | 37.5 | 38.9 | 39.7 | 41.5 | ||
| Portugal | (3) (5) | 54.3 | 57.5 | 60.6 | 61.7 | 54.8 | 39.4 | ||
| Slovenia | (4) | 73.9 | 87.5 | ||||||
| Sweden | (4) | 78 | 78.9 | 79.1 | 80 | 82.1 | 81.6 | 81.7 | |
| United Kingdom | (4) | 83.7 | 85.2 | 86.3 | 86.3 | 86.2 | |||
| Notes: | |||||||||
| Data are not available for some countries. | |||||||||
| For definitions of reports for drug law offences, please refer to [Methods and definitions - Drug law offences] in this Statistical bulletin. | |||||||||
| (1) The law only differs between small and large quantities. Thus cases of possession and small-scale trafficking have been considered as 'use/possession for use'. | |||||||||
| (2) Among all drug offences in 1998 and 1999; among main drug offences from 2000. | |||||||||
| (3) Among main drug offences. | |||||||||
| (4) Among all drug offences - several different drug offences may be involved in one case. | |||||||||
| (5) Since July 2001, drug use/possession for use is not a criminal offence anymore and thus not considered here. In consequence, the proportion has decreased in 2001 and the series has stopped since then. | |||||||||
| Source: National focal points. | |||||||||
