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

Part (iii) Last 12 months prevalence 15 to 24 years old: all surveys

Country Geographical area		Year	Reference	Age range youngest adults	Sample size (15–24)	Cannabis (%)	Cocaine (%) (1)	Amphetamines (%) (2)	Ecstasy (%) (3)	LSD (%)
Belgium
Vlaanderen (Brussels excluded)		1994	(1)	:	:	:	:	:	:	:
French Community		1996–97	(2)	18–24	:	:	:	:	:	:
French Community		1998–99	(3)	18–24	:	:	:	:	:	:
French Community		2000	(4)	18–24	:	:	:	:	:	:
National		2001	(5)	15–24	1152	:	:	:	:	:
National		2004	(6)	15–24	:	11.8	:	:	:	:
Bulgaria
National		2005	(1)	18–24	173	6.6	1.6	2.2	2.7	1.1
National		2007	(2)	15–24	1253	7.4	1.0	1.6	2.7	0.3
National		2008	(3)	15–24	1087	8.7	1.9	2.8	2.4	0.2
Czech Republic
National		2002	(1)	18–24	389	32.0	:	3.5	10.8	3.5
National		2004	(2)	18–24	586	28.2	0.4	2.2	12.0	1.3
National		2008	(3)	15–24	827	37.3	1.9	3.6	11.2	6.7
National		2008	(4)	15–24	288	12.8	1.2	1.5	1.5	1.5
Denmark
National		1990	(1)	:	:	:	:	:	:	:
National		1994	(2)	:	:	:	:	:	:	:
National		2000	(3)	16–24	1754	19.7	2.7	5.6	2.2	0.6
National		2005	(4)	16–24	1434	20.5	3.3	4.1	1.5	0.6
National		2008	(5)	16–24	879	21.3	5.6	5.4	2.3	0.2
Germany
East Germany		1990	(1)	:	:	:	:	:	:	:
Western Germany		1990	(2)	:	:	:	:	:	:	:
Old and New Länder		1995	(3)	18–24	:	15.7	2.4	3.1	4.2	:
Old and New Länder		1997	(4)	18–24	:	11.9	1.8	1.8	2.8	:
National		2000	(5)	18–24	963	21.1	2.4	2.7	2.9	1.0
National		2003	(6)	18–24	1891	22.1	2.1	3.1	2.1	0.6
National		2006	(7)	18–24	1868	16.8	1.8	2.3	1.8	0.4
Estonia
National		1998	(1)	18–24	:	7.0	1.0	3.0	1.0	1.0
National		2003	(2)	15–24	329	18.2	1.8	5.5	6.1	1.5
National		2008	(3)	15–24	243	19.4	2.0	3.7	3.3	1.2
Ireland
National		1998	(1)	:	:	:	:	:	:	:
National		1998	(2)	18–24	:	26.0	3.4	8.8	8.1	5.1
National		2000	(3)	:	:	:	:	:	:	:
National		2002–03	(4)	15–24	:	11.0	2.7	1.2	2.8	0.2
National		2006–07	(5)	15–24	:	13.1	3.8	0.8	2.8	0.2
Greece
Athens		1993	(1)	:	:	:	:	:	:	:
National (except Aegean and Ionian Islands)		1998	(2)	15–24	1373	10.3	1.1	0.3	0.5	:
National (except Aegean and Ionian Islands)		2004	(3)	15–24	1 785	3.6	0.2	0.1	0.3	0.2
Spain
National		1995	(1)	:	:	:	:	:	:	:
National		1997	(2)	15–24	:	18.1	2.8	2.1	2.6	:
National		1999	(3)	15–24	:	16.6	3.3	1.8	2.2	:
National		2001	(4)	15–24	3 368	21.0	4.4	2.6	4.6	:
National		2003	(5)	15–24	2327	24.0	4.8	2.1	4.0	:
National		2005–06	(6)	15–24	8188	24.3	5.8	2.5	3.0	:
National		2007-08	(7)	15–24	3943	24.1	5.4	2.0	2.6	:
France
National		1992	(1)	:	:	:	:	:	:	:
Metropolitan France		1995	(2)	18–24	:	18.7	0.0	1.3	:	:
National		1999	(3)	15–24	:	20.3	0.6	0.0	0.8	0.0
National		2000	(4)	15–24	:	24.6	0.7	0.6	0.9	0.9
Metropolitan France		2002	(5)	15–24	345	28.0	0.9	0.0	1.1	0.6
National		2005	(6)	15–24	4662	21.7	1.1	0.2	1.1	0.3
Italy
National		2001	(1)	15–24	:	11.5	1.8	0.1	0.1	0.0
National		2003	(2)	15–24	2112	16.7	2.5	0.6	0.8	1.0
National		2005	(3)	15–24	9006	19.6	3.3	0.7	1.1	1.4
National		2008	(4)	15–24	3475	22.3	2.5	0.8	1.2	:
Cyprus
National		2006	(1)	15–24	969	3.6	1.0	0.5	1.3	0.7
Latvia
National		2003	(1)	15–24	:	12.7	0.6	3.0	3.0	1.5
National		2007	(2)	15–24	1855	12.9	1.3	2.4	3.6	0.6
Lithuania
National		2004	(1)	15–24	923	7.0	0.7	1.2	1.2	0.2
National		2008	(2)	15–24	1165	12.8	0.4	1.7	2.2	0.3
Luxembourg
National		1998	(1)	15–24	:	:	:	:	:	:
Hungary
National		2001	(1)	15–24	308	9.3	0.0	2.5	2.8	2.5
National		2003	(2)	18–24	943	13.3	1.0	3.1	4.2	1.1
National		2007	(3)	18–24	433	10.1	1.1	2.7	2.2	0.5
Malta
National		2001	(1)	18–24	287	:	:	:	:	:
Netherlands
National		1997–98	(1)	15–24	:	14.3	1.6	1.1	2.2	:
National		2001	(2)	15–24	:	11.6	:	:	:	:
National		2005	(3)	15–24	:	11.4	:	:	:	:
Austria
National		2004	(1)	15–24	959	15.0	1.7	1.9	2.0	0.4
National		2008	(2)	15–24	2085	10.6	2.1	2.0	2.2	0.7
Poland
National		2002	(1)	16–24	:	9.2	2.0	2.1	0.9	1.6
National		2006	(2)	15–24	1135	7.5	0.3	1.9	0.9	0.5
Portugal
National		2001	(1)	15–24	3099	8.0	0.7	0.1	1.2	0.4
National		2007	(2)	15–24	2211	6.6	0.7	0.4	1.0	0.4
Romania
National		2004	(1)	15–24	:	:	:	:	:	:
National		2007	(2)	15–24	1060	1.5	0.1	0.1	0.3	0.0
Slovenia
National		2007	(1)	15–24	338	7.3	:	:	:	:
Slovakia
National		1996	(1)	15–24	309	15.2	2.6	1.1	:	:
National		1998	(2)	15–24	290	12.6	0.9	0.5	2.9	:
National		2000	(3)	15–24	297	16.9	1.2	1.0	3.5	:
National		2002	(4)	15–24	301	16.0	0.5	1.0	2.4	:
National		2004	(5)	15–24	307	15.3	0.0	0.7	4.2	:
National		2006	(6)	15–24	287	20.4	1.8	1.1	5.3	:
Finland
National		1992	(1)	:	:	:	:	:	:	:
National		1996	(2)	:	:	:	:	:	:	:
National		1998	(3)	:	:	9.5	:	0.6	0.6	:
National		2000	(4)	15–24	:	6.7	0.3	1.2	1.0	0.6
National		2002	(5)	15–24	614	10.7	0.8	2.1	2.0	0.3
National		2004	(6)	15–24	494	9.6	1.1	2.2	2.4	0.3
National		2006	(7)	15–24	654	9.1	0.9	1.8	2.0	0.5
Sweden
National		1994	(1)	16–24	146	:	:	:	:	:
National		1996	(2)	16–24	228	:	:	:	:	:
National		1998	(3)	16–24	244	2.4	0.0	0.0	0.0	:
National		2000	(4)	16–24	:	1.9	0.0	0.0	0.9	0.0
National		2008	(5)	15–24	7787	5.6	1.6	2.3	0.3	:
National		2004	(6)	16–24	1171	7.3	:	:	:	:
National		2005	(7)	16–24	4502	7.0	:	:	:	:
National		2006	(8)	16–24	7014	6.0	:	:	:	:
National		2007	(9)	16–24	627	6.0	:	:	:	:
National		2008	(10)	16–24	1166	4.9	:	:	:	:
United Kingdom
England and Wales		1994	(1)	16–24	1442	26.4	1.4	9.5	4.1	5.6
England and Wales		1996	(2)	16–24	1475	26.0	1.4	11.8	6.6	4.5
England and Wales		1998	(3)	16–24	1295	28.2	3.2	9.9	5.1	3.2
England and Wales		2000	(4)	16–24	1517	27.0	5.4	6.2	5.6	2.5
England and Wales		2001–02	(5)	16–24	4057	26.9	4.9	5.0	6.8	1.2
England and Wales		2002–03	(6)	16–24	4292	26.2	5.2	3.8	5.8	0.9
England and Wales		2003–04	(7)	16–24	5429	25.3	5.4	4.0	5.5	0.9
England and Wales		2004–05	(8)	16–24	6287	23.6	5.1	3.2	4.9	0.5
England and Wales		2005–06	(9)	16–24	5892	21.4	5.9	3.3	4.3	0.9
England and Wales		2006–07	(10)	16–24	5749	20.9	6.1	3.5	4.8	0.8
England and Wales		2007-08	(11)	16–24	5819	17.9	5.0	2.4	3.9	0.7
England and Wales		2008-09	(12)	16–24	5476	18.7	6.6	2.7	4.4	0.8
Northern Ireland		2002–03	(13)	15–24	:	12.1	1.4	2.0	4.8	0.2
Northern Ireland		2005	(14)	16–24	:	15.7	2.8	2.4	4.6	0.0
Northern Ireland		2006-07	(15)	16–24	342	17.6	2.0	1.4	3.0	0.2
Northern Ireland		2007-08	(16)	16–24	315	13.0	5.7	1.4	3.7	0.2
Scotland		2003	(17)	16–24	619	23.1	5.1	3.0	5.2	0.3
Scotland		2004	(18)	16–24	330	16.4	3.0	2.6	2.4	0.7
Scotland		2006	(19)	16–24	426	27.1	11.0	5.6	9.2	2.0
United Kingdom		2004	(20)	:	:	24.3	4.9	3.8	5.3	0.8
United Kingdom		2006	(21)	16–24	:	21.2	6.4	3.6	5.1	0.9
Croatia
:		:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:
Turkey
:		:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:
Norway
National		1999	(1)	15–24	:	:	:	:	:	:
National		2004	(2)	15–24	645	13.1	1.4	2.5	1.3	0.3

Notes:

 (1) Cocaine, any form. 

 (2) For Belgium National 2001 and for Metropolitan France 1995: amphetamine and ecstasy, for Denmark National 1994: hard drugs. 

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

 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-7 part (i).  

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

Sources:

 See Table GPS-0. 

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