Table GPS-1. Lifetime prevalence of drug use among all adults (aged 15 to 64 years) in nationwide surveys among the general population [see all tables in this series...]

Part (i) Lifetime prevalence all adults

Country Geographical area		Year	Reference	Age range all adults	Sample size all adults	Cannabis (%)	Cocaine (%) (1)	Amphetamines (%) (2)	Ecstasy (%) (3)	LSD (%)
Belgium
Vlaanderen (Brussels excluded)		1994	(1)	18–65	2259	5.8	0.5	0.9	0.5	:
French Community		1996–97	(2)	18–49	978	12.8	:	:	:	:
French Community		1998–99	(3)	18–49	1006	20.3	:	:	:	:
French Community		2000	(4)	18–49	693	22.2	:	:	:	:
National		2001	(5)	15–64	7347	10.6	:	2.1	:	:
National		2004	(6)	15–64	:	13.0	:	:	:	:
Bulgaria
National		2005	(1)	18–60	1036	4.4	1.1	1.4	1.3	0.8
National		2007	(2)	15–64	6027	5.6	1.4	1.4	2.0	0.4
Czech Republic
National		2002	(1)	18–64	2526	21.1	:	2.3	4.0	2.2
National		2004	(2)	18–64	3526	20.6	1.1	2.5	7.1	1.4
Denmark
National		1990	(1)	>=16	2000	22.0	1.0	3.0	:	:
National		1994	(2)	:	:	:	:	:	:	:
National		2000	(3)	16–64	11825	31.3	2.5	5.9	1.0	1.4
National		2005	(4)	16–64	13310	36.5	4.0	6.9	1.8	1.7
National		2008	(5)	16–64	3408	38.6	4.7	6.3	1.9	1.7
Germany
East Germany		1990	(1)	:	:	:	:	:	:	:
Western Germany		1990	(2)	:	:	:	:	:	:	:
Old and new Länder		1995	(3)	18–59	7833	11.9	1.9	2.4	1.4	:
Old and new Länder		1997	(4)	18–59	8019	11.5	1.4	1.5	1.5	:
National		2000	(5)	18–59	8139	19.3	2.3	2.3	1.6	1.8
National		2003	(6)	18–59	8061	24.5	3.2	3.4	2.4	2.5
National		2006	(7)	18–64	7912	23.0	2.5	2.5	2.0	1.7
Estonia
National		1998	(1)	18–64	2317	5.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	:
National		2003	(2)	15–64	:	:	:	:	:	:
Ireland
National		1998	(1)	18–64	826	14.3	:	:	:	:
National		1998	(2)	18–64	:	19.9	:	:	:	:
National		2000	(3)	18–64	907	11.3	:	:	:	:
National		2002–03	(4)	15–64	4918	17.4	3.0	3.0	3.7	2.9
National		2006–07	(5)	15–64	4967	21.9	5.3	3.5	5.4	2.9
Greece
Athens		1993	(1)	12–64	2103	9.4	0.8	1.0	:	:
National (except Aegean and Ionian Islands)		1998	(2)	15–64	3398	13.1	1.3	0.6	0.3	:
National (except Aegean and Ionian Islands)		2004	(3)	15–64	4351	8.9	0.7	0.1	0.4	0.3
Spain
National		1995	(1)	15–64	8888	14.2	3.7	2.5	2.0	:
National		1997	(2)	15–65	12515	21.7	3.2	2.6	2.5	:
National		1999	(3)	15–64	12234	19.8	3.2	2.2	2.4	:
National		2001	(4)	15–64	14113	24.5	4.9	3.0	4.2	:
National		2003	(5)	15–64	12033	29.0	5.9	3.2	4.6	:
National		2005–06	(6)	15–64	27934	28.6	7.0	3.4	4.4	:
National		2007-08	(7)	15–64	23715	27.3	8.3	3.8	4.2	:
France
National		1992	(1)	15–64	2099	11.3	0.7	:	:	:
Metropolitan France		1995	(2)	18–75	1787	16.0	1.2	0.7	:	:
National		1999	(3)	18–69	1742	21.9	1.5	0.2	0.9	1.2
National		2000	(4)	15–64	11317	22.5	1.6	1.5	0.9	1.7
Metropolitan France		2002	(5)	15–64	1744	26.2	2.2	0.4	0.9	1.2
National		2005	(6)	15–64	25879	30.6	2.6	1.4	2.0	1.5
Italy
National		2001	(1)	15–44	6032	21.9	3.4	1.5	1.8	0.0
National		2003	(2)	15–54	11869	22.4	4.6	1.9	1.8	2.1
National		2005	(3)	15–64	27995	29.3	6.6	2.4	2.5	3.1
National		2007	(4)	15–64	7289	31.2	6.8	3.1	2.9	:
Cyprus
National		2006	(1)	15–64	3504	6.6	1.1	0.8	1.6	0.9
Latvia
National		2003	(1)	15–64	4534	10.6	1.2	2.6	2.4	1.1
National		2007	(2)	15–64	4500	12.1	2.3	3.3	4.7	1.4
Lithuania
National		2004	(1)	15–64	4207	7.6	0.4	1.1	1.0	0.3
Luxembourg
National		1998	(1)	15–64	:	12.9	0.2	:	1.2	1.4
Hungary
National		2001	(1)	18–65	2359	5.7	0.8	1.6	2.0	1.6
National		2003	(2)	18–54	3675	9.8	1.0	2.5	3.1	1.7
National		2007	(3)	18–64	2710	8.5	0.9	1.8	2.4	1.1
Malta
National		2001	(1)	18–64	:	3.5	0.4	0.4	0.7	0.5
Netherlands
National		1997–98	(1)	15–64	17590	19.1	2.6	2.2	2.3	1.5
National		2001	(2)	15–64	2312	19.5	2.1	2.0	3.2	1.2
National		2005	(3)	15–64	4516	22.6	3.4	2.1	4.3	1.4
Austria
National		2004	(1)	15–64	3980	20.1	2.3	2.4	3.0	1.7
Poland
National		2002	(1)	16–64	:	7.7	0.8	1.9	0.7	1.2
National		2006	(2)	15–64	2859	9.0	0.8	2.7	1.2	0.9
Portugal
National		2001	(1)	15–64	14186	7.6	0.9	0.5	0.7	0.4
National		2007	(2)	15–64	12202	11.7	1.9	0.9	1.3	0.6
Romania
National		2004	(1)	15–64	:	1.7	0.4	0.2	0.3	0.2
National		2007	(2)	15–64	6797	1.5	0.1	0.0	0.3	0.0
Slovenia
:		:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:
Slovakia
National		1996	(1)	15–64	:	7.7	1.1	0.8	:	:
National		1998	(2)	15–64	:	8.2	1.0	0.9	2.0	:
National		2000	(3)	15–64	1254	11.7	1.0	0.9	2.5	:
National		2002	(4)	18–64	1269	14.9	1.0	0.8	1.8	:
National		2004	(5)	15–64	1315	15.6	1.1	1.5	4.0	:
National		2006	(6)	15–64	1305	16.1	1.2	1.2	4.3	:
Finland
National		1992	(1)	18–74	3457	4.9	:	0.2	:	:
National		1996	(2)	16–74	3009	7.3	:	0.7	:	:
National		1998	(3)	15–69	2568	9.7	0.6	1.0	0.5	:
National		2000	(4)	15–64	1677	9.9	0.6	1.0	0.6	0.4
National		2002	(5)	15–64	2377	12.8	0.7	2.2	1.4	0.8
National		2004	(6)	15–64	2352	12.9	1.2	1.9	1.4	0.7
National		2006	(7)	15–64	2802	14.3	1.1	2.2	1.6	1.1
Sweden
National		1994	(1)	16–64	806	7.1	0.4	1.4	0.0	0.4
National		1996	(2)	16–64	1136	9.8	1.0	2.1	0.3	0.2
National		1998	(3)	16–64	1359	13.9	0.6	2.0	0.3	:
National		2000	(4)	16–64	1750	12.5	0.7	1.9	0.2	0.3
National		2004	(5)	18–64	9514	13.8	:	:	:	:
National		2005	(6)	16–64	30538	11.9	:	:	:	:
National		2006	(7)	16–64	41701	12.0	:	:	:	:
National		2007	(8)	16–64	4401	12.8	:	:	:	:
United Kingdom
England and Wales		1994	(1)	16–59	9645	21.0	2.4	8.2	2.4	4.4
England and Wales		1996	(2)	16–59	10935	23.5	3.1	9.3	3.8	5.4
England and Wales		1998	(3)	16–59	9984	26.8	3.8	10.8	4.2	5.6
England and Wales		2000	(4)	16–59	13018	29.5	5.6	12.3	5.3	6.2
England and Wales		2001–02	(5)	16–59	20165	28.9	5.2	11.6	5.9	5.4
England and Wales		2002–03	(6)	16–59	23586	30.6	6.2	12.3	6.6	5.9
England and Wales		2003–04	(7)	16–59	24422	30.8	6.8	12.2	6.9	6.1
England and Wales		2004–05	(8)	16–59	28509	29.7	6.1	11.2	6.7	5.1
England and Wales		2005–06	(9)	16–59	29748	29.8	7.3	11.5	7.2	5.5
England and Wales		2006–07	(10)	16–59	31054	30.1	7.7	11.9	7.3	5.4
England and Wales		2007-08	(11)	16-59	28688	30.0	7.6	11.7	7.5	5.2
Northern Ireland		2002–03	(13)	15–64	3516	16.8	1.6	4.0	5.8	4.5
Northern Ireland		2005	(14)	16–59	:	18.9	3.9	6.6	5.9	3.2
Northern Ireland		2006-07	(15)	16–64	2439	19.6	3.4	6.2	5.5	3.5
Scotland		2003	(16)	16–64	3506	21.0	4.6	8.9	5.5	4.3
Scotland		2004	(17)	16–64	3293	20.5	4.4	7.8	5.1	3.9
Scotland		2006	(18)	16–59	3157	32.9	8.9	14.1	9.9	7.7
United Kingdom		2004	(19)	:	:	29.6	6.5	11.7	6.7	5.9
United Kingdom		2006	(20)	16–59	:	30.2	7.7	11.9	7.5	5.6
Croatia
:		:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:
Turkey
:		:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:
Norway
National		1999	(1)	15–64	1803	15.3	2.2	3.8	1.3	:
National		2004	(2)	15–64	2669	16.2	2.7	3.6	1.8	1.1

Notes:

 : indicates data not available 

 (1) Cocaine, any form. 

 (2) For Belgium National 2001 and for Metropolitan France 1995: amphetamine and ecstasy. 

 (3) For Spain: ecstasy and other designer drugs. 

 (4) In the Netherlands, the figures for 2001 have been recomputed using only the interviews conducted using the CAPI method (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) and excluding other methods of data collection (mail, telephone, etc.) to ensure comparability with 1997 and 2005. For 2005 only, respondents with information collected through the CAPI method were included (this note applies to all tables and graphics regarding population surveys for the Netherlands 2001 and 2005). 

 This table aims to present an overview of national surveys. Exceptionally, some relevant regional surveys are presented. Some city surveys reported by countries were not included as they tend to produce higher prevalence estimates which are not comparable with estimates for whole countries (or large regions with both urban and rural areas). Athens was included as reference point for the 1993 survey.  

 In surveys with small sample sizes results should be interpreted with caution. 

 Countries were asked to report results using, as far as possible, EMCDDA standard age groups (all adults: 15–64, young adults: 15–34). In countries where age ranges are more restrictive, prevalence estimates tend to be slightly higher. Some countries have recalculated their prevalence figures using the EMCDDA standard age groups. 

 For methods and definitions on population surveys in general, see General population surveys of drug use – methods and definitions. 

 For methods of each survey presented in this table, see Table GPS-1 part (ii).  

 See also 'General notes for interpreting data' on the Explanatory notes and help page. 

Sources:

 See Table GPS-0. 

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