Table GPS-8. Last 12 months prevalence of drug use in nationwide surveys among the general population [see all tables in this series...]

Part (i) Last 12 months prevalence all adults: all surveys

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	1.5	0.2	0.3	0.1	:
French Community		1996–97	(2)	18–49	978	:	:	:	:	:
French Community		1998–99	(3)	18–49	1006	:	:	:	:	:
French Community		2000	(4)	18–49	693	:	:	:	:	:
National		2001	(5)	15–64	7347	:	:	:	:	:
National		2004	(6)	15–64	:	5.0	:	:	:	:
Bulgaria
National		2005	(1)	18–60	1036	1.5	0.3	0.4	0.5	0.2
National		2007	(2)	15–64	6027	1.9	0.5	0.4	0.6	0.1
National		2008	(3)	15–64	5139	2.7	0.7	0.9	0.7	0.0
Czech Republic
National		2002	(1)	18–64	2526	10.9	:	1.1	2.5	1.0
National		2004	(2)	18–64	3526	9.3	0.2	0.7	3.5	0.4
National		2008	(3)	15–64	4500	15.2	0.7	1.7	3.7	2.1
National		2008	(4)	15–64	1525	5.3	0.6	0.6	0.8	0.7
Denmark
National		1990	(1)	>=16	2000	5.0	0.2	0.7	:	:
National		1994	(2)	:	:	:	:	:	:	:
National		2000	(3)	16–64	11825	6.2	0.8	1.3	0.5	0.2
National		2005	(4)	16–64	13310	5.2	1.0	0.7	0.3	0.1
National		2008	(5)	16–64	3408	5.5	1.4	1.2	0.4	0.1
Germany
East Germany		1990	(1)	:	:	:	:	:	:	:
Western Germany		1990	(2)	:	:	:	:	:	:	:
Old and new Länder		1995	(3)	18–59	7833	4.4	0.8	0.7	0.8	:
Old and new Länder		1997	(4)	18–59	8019	4.0	0.6	0.4	0.8	:
National		2000	(5)	18–59	8139	6.0	0.9	0.6	0.7	0.2
National		2003	(6)	18–59	8061	6.9	1.0	0.9	0.8	0.3
National		2006	(7)	18–64	7912	4.7	0.6	0.5	0.4	0.1
Estonia
National		1998	(1)	18–64	2317	2.0	:	1.0	:	:
National		2003	(2)	15–64	:	4.6	0.6	1.3	1.7	0.3
National		2008	(3)	15–64	1401	6.0	0.7	1.1	1.2	0.3
Ireland
National		1998	(1)	18–64	826	:	:	:	:	:
National		1998	(2)	18–64	:	9.4	1.3	2.6	2.4	1.4
National		2000	(3)	18–64	907	:	:	:	:	:
National		2002–03	(4)	15–64	4918	5.0	1.1	0.4	1.1	0.1
National		2006–07	(5)	15–64	4967	6.3	1.7	0.4	1.2	0.2
Greece
Athens		1993	(1)	12–64	2103	2.5	0.2	0.1	:	:
National (except Aegean and Ionian Islands)		1998	(2)	15–64	3398	4.4	0.5	0.0	0.1	:
National (except Aegean and Ionian Islands)		2004	(3)	15–64	4351	1.7	0.1	0.0	0.2	0.1
Spain
National		1995	(1)	15–64	8888	7.3	1.9	1.1	1.3	:
National		1997	(2)	15–65	12515	7.6	1.7	0.9	0.9	:
National		1999	(3)	15–64	12234	7.0	1.6	0.7	0.8	:
National		2001	(4)	15–64	14113	9.7	2.6	1.2	1.9	:
National		2003	(5)	15–64	12033	11.3	2.7	0.8	1.4	:
National		2005–06	(6)	15–64	27934	11.2	3.0	0.7	1.2	:
National		2007-08	(7)	15–64	23715	10.1	3.1	0.9	1.2	:
France
National		1992	(1)	15–64	2099	3.9	0.3	:	:	:
Metropolitan France		1995	(2)	18–75	1787	4.7	0.2	0.3	:	:
National		1999	(3)	18–69	1742	7.4	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.1
National		2000	(4)	15–64	11317	8.4	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2
Metropolitan France		2002	(5)	15–64	1744	9.8	0.3	0.0	0.3	0.1
National		2005	(6)	15–64	25879	8.6	0.6	0.1	0.4	0.1
Italy
National		2001	(1)	15–44	6032	6.2	1.1	0.1	0.2	0.0
National		2003	(2)	15–54	11869	7.1	1.2	0.2	0.4	0.2
National		2005	(3)	15–64	27995	11.2	2.2	0.4	0.5	0.6
National		2008	(4)	15–64	10940	14.3	2.1	0.4	0.7	:
Cyprus
National		2006	(1)	15–64	3504	2.1	0.6	0.3	1.0	0.5
Latvia
National		2003	(1)	15–64	4534	3.8	0.2	1.1	0.8	0.5
National		2007	(2)	15–64	4500	4.9	0.5	0.9	1.5	0.2
Lithuania
National		2004	(1)	15–64	4207	2.2	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.1
National		2008	(2)	15–64	4777	5.6	0.2	0.7	1.0	0.2
Luxembourg
National		1998	(1)	15–64	:	4.0	0.2	:	0.0	:
Hungary
National		2001	(1)	18–65	2359	2.4	0.2	0.7	0.8	0.7
National		2003	(2)	18–54	3675	3.9	0.4	1.0	1.4	0.5
National		2007	(3)	18–64	2710	2.3	0.2	0.5	0.5	0.2
Malta
National		2001	(1)	18–64	1755	0.8	0.3	0.0	0.2	0.1
Netherlands
National	(4)	1997–98	(1)	15–64	17590	5.5	0.7	0.4	0.8	:
National	(4)	2001	(2)	15–64	2312	5.5	0.7	0.4	1.1	0.0
National		2005	(3)	15–64	4516	5.4	0.6	0.3	1.2	0.1
Austria
National		2004	(1)	15–64	3980	7.5	0.9	0.8	0.9	0.2
National		2008	(2)	15–64	3761	3.5	0.9	0.5	0.5	0.2
Poland
National		2002	(1)	16–64	:	2.8	0.5	0.7	0.2	0.4
National		2006	(2)	15–64	2859	2.7	0.2	0.7	0.3	0.1
Portugal
National		2001	(1)	15–64	14186	3.3	0.3	0.1	0.4	0.1
National		2007	(2)	15–64	12202	3.6	0.6	0.2	0.4	0.1
Romania
National		2004	(1)	15–64	:	:	:	:	:	:
National		2007	(2)	15–64	6797	0.4	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0
Slovenia
National		2007	(1)	15–64	1724	3.1	:	:	:	:
Slovakia
National		1996	(1)	15–64	:	5.3	0.8	0.5	:	:
National		1998	(2)	15–64	:	4.8	0.4	0.3	1.1	:
National		2000	(3)	15–64	1254	7.2	0.4	0.4	1.2	:
National		2002	(4)	18–64	1269	6.3	0.6	0.2	0.9	:
National		2004	(5)	15–64	1315	5.8	0.5	0.3	1.6	:
National		2006	(6)	15–64	1305	6.9	0.6	0.3	1.6	:
Finland
National		1992	(1)	18–74	3457	1.2	:	:	:	:
National		1996	(2)	16–74	3009	1.9	:	:	:	:
National		1998	(3)	15–69	2568	2.5	0.2	0.2	0.2	:
National		2000	(4)	15–64	1677	2.2	0.2	0.4	0.3	0.2
National		2002	(5)	15–64	2377	2.9	0.3	0.5	0.5	0.1
National		2004	(6)	15–64	2352	2.9	0.3	0.6	0.5	0.1
National		2006	(7)	15–64	2802	3.6	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.1
Sweden
National		1994	(1)	16–64	806	:	:	:	:	:
National		1996	(2)	16–64	1136	:	:	:	:	:
National		1998	(3)	16–64	1359	0.9	0.1	0.1	0.0	:
National		2000	(4)	16–64	1750	0.7	0.0	0.2	0.2	0.0
National		2008	(5)	15–64	22095	1.2	0.5	0.8	0.1	:
National		2004	(6)	18–64	9514	2.2	:	:	:	:
National		2005	(7)	16–64	30538	2.0	:	:	:	:
National		2006	(8)	16–64	41701	2.0	:	:	:	:
National		2007	(9)	16–64	4401	2.1	:	:	:	:
National		2008	(10)	16-64	8343	1.9	:	:	:	:
United Kingdom
England and Wales		1994	(1)	16–59	9645	8.4	0.5	2.4	1.0	1.3
England and Wales		1996	(2)	16–59	10935	9.5	0.6	3.2	1.7	1.0
England and Wales		1998	(3)	16–59	9984	10.3	1.3	3.0	1.5	0.8
England and Wales		2000	(4)	16–59	13018	10.5	2.0	2.1	1.8	0.7
England and Wales		2001–02	(5)	16–59	20165	10.6	2.0	1.6	2.2	0.3
England and Wales		2002–03	(6)	16–59	23586	10.9	2.1	1.6	2.0	0.3
England and Wales		2003–04	(7)	16–59	24422	10.8	2.5	1.5	2.0	0.2
England and Wales		2004–05	(8)	16–59	28509	9.7	2.0	1.4	1.8	0.2
England and Wales		2005–06	(9)	16–59	29748	8.7	2.4	1.3	1.6	0.3
England and Wales		2006–07	(10)	16–59	31054	8.2	2.6	1.3	1.8	0.2
England and Wales		2007-08	(11)	16-59	28688	7.4	2.3	1.0	1.5	0.3
England and Wales		2008-09	(12)	16-59	28407	7.9	3.0	1.2	1.8	0.2
Northern Ireland		2002–03	(13)	15–64	3516	5.4	0.5	0.8	1.6	0.1
Northern Ireland		2005	(14)	16–59	:	5.8	1.1	1.0	1.6	0.2
Northern Ireland		2006-07	(15)	16–64	2439	6.1	0.9	0.5	0.9	0.2
Northern Ireland		2007-08	(16)	16–64	2731	4.8	1.6	0.8	1.4	0.1
Scotland		2003	(17)	16–64	3506	7.4	1.4	1.3	1.5	0.1
Scotland		2004	(18)	16–64	3293	5.8	1.4	0.9	1.0	0.2
Scotland		2006	(19)	16–59	3157	11.0	3.8	2.2	3.2	0.6
United Kingdom		2004	(20)	:	:	10.3	2.3	1.5	1.9	0.2
United Kingdom		2006	(21)	16–59	:	8.4	2.7	1.4	1.9	0.2
Croatia
:		:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:
Turkey
:		:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:
Norway
National		1999	(1)	15–64	1803	4.5	0.6	1.2	0.7	:
National		2004	(2)	15–64	2669	4.6	0.8	1.1	0.5	0.2

Notes:

 (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 with 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 provide 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 a 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 may tend to be slightly higher. Some countries have recalculated their prevalence figures using the EMCDDA standard age groups.  

 For methods and definitions see General population surveys of drug use – methods and definitions. 

 For survey methods see Table GPS-7 part (i).  

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

Sources:

 See Table GPS-0.  

• Download this data in Excel (.xls) format

(see the help page for information about formats etc.)