Table DRD-2. Number of drug-induced deaths recorded in EU Member States according to national definitions [see all tables in this series...]

Part (v) Totals and indexes, 1995 to 2008

Totals and indexes		1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Total drug-induced deaths
Total number of deaths (all Member States)		6516	7410	6815	7062	7598	8205	8059	6779	6308	6747	7155	6813	7021	-
Total number of deaths (15 previous Member States and Norway)		6312	7142	6438	6648	7038	7593	7461	6207	5807	6174	6557	6235	6495	-
Total number of deaths (new Member States)		204	268	377	414	560	612	598	572	501	573	598	578	526	-
Total number of deaths males (all Member States)		4639	5616	5021	5179	6196	6774	6577	5520	5121	5526	5732	5483	5763	-
Total number of deaths females (all Member States)		1018	1077	1055	1118	1298	1344	1436	1246	1172	1202	1345	1321	1229	-
Total number of deaths under the age of 25 (all Member States)		893	997	1087	1061	1263	1307	1231	1138	1189	1262	1116	1064	953	-
Total number of deaths under the age of 25 (15 previous Member States and Norway)		889	976	993	961	1120	1122	1025	939	1039	1081	945	915	838	-
Total number of deaths under the age of 25 (new Member States)		-	21	94	99	140	184	206	195	150	175	169	144	120	-
Indices
Index (all Member States and Norway)	(1)	100.0	117.4	107.9	111.2	119.7	129.2	126.7	110.7	102.5	109.0	111.2	105.8	110.3	115.9
Index (15 previous Member States and Norway)	(1)	100.0	113.1	102.0	105.7	111.9	120.7	118.1	98.7	92.3	98.2	99.9	95.0	98.9	102.4
Index (new Member States)	(2)	-	100.0	134.3	125.8	170.1	185.9	178.0	182.5	149.6	160.1	167.1	161.5	168.9	217.0
Index males (15 previous Member States and Norway)	(1)	100.0	116.8	102.3	106.8	112.0	122.5	117.3	98.0	90.8	97.4	101.4	96.5	102.5	104.1
Index females (15 previous Member States and Norway)	(1)	100.0	102.0	96.8	103.0	110.0	112.4	120.9	107.4	104.8	106.7	118.4	118.5	111.3	124.5
Index under the age of 25 (15 previous Member States and Norway)	(1)	100.0	107.2	109.1	104.6	112.0	108.8	99.4	91.1	100.8	104.9	90.6	87.7	80.3	76.3
Index under the age of 25 (new Member States)	(2)	-	100.0	157.1	165.5	234.0	307.6	267.5	280.3	196.3	206.8	202.0	172.1	146.5	132.6

Notes:

 The national definitions used to report to the EMCDDA and the methods used are described in Drug-related deaths — methods and definitions.     

 For 2008 the index is provisional, computed on the basis of the percentage change in the countries that provided data for both 2007 and 2008     

 United Kingdom: Only data based on the definition used by the DSD figures.     

 (1) Corrected Index: 1995=100.     

 Some countries did not provide data for some years (see Table DRD-2 part (i)). To correct this situation, the computation method used is defined in the report (European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (2001), ‘Coordination of the implementation of the EMCDDA standard guidelines on the drug-related deaths in the EU Member States, and the collection and analysis of information on drug-related deaths’), Project CT.99.RTX.04, coordinated by the Trimbos Institute, Lisbon, EMCDDA.      

 (2) Corrected Index: 1996=100.     

 Some countries did not provide data for some years (Table DRD-2 part (i)). To correct this situation, the computation method used is defined in the report (European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (2001), ‘Coordination of the implementation of the EMCDDA standard guidelines on the drug-related deaths in the EU Member States, and the collection and analysis of information on drug-related deaths’, Project CT.99.RTX.04, coordinated by the Trimbos Institute, Lisbon, EMCDDA.      

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

Sources:

 Reitox national reports 2009, taken from national mortality registries or special registries (forensic or police). Based on ‘National definitions’ as presented in Drug-related deaths — methods and definitions.     

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