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Category: Drug-related deaths by country. 3 languages. ... Drug-related deaths in the United Kingdom (6 C, 2 P) Drug-related deaths in the United States (6 C, 8 P)
This is a list of countries (and some territories) by the annual prevalence of opiates use as percentage of the population aged 15–64 (unless otherwise indicated).. The primary source of information are the World Drug Report 2011 (WDR 2011) and the World Drug Report 2006 (WDR 2006), [1] [2] published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
The indicator is the "annual prevalence" rate which is the percentage of the youth and adult population who have consumed the drug at least once in the past year. According to a 2019 study, 5 Swiss cities (St Gallen, Bern, Zurich, Basel and Geneva) were listed among top 10 European cities for cocaine use. [2] [3]
While prohibited drugs are generally viewed as being the most dangerous, the misuse of prescription drugs is linked to more deaths in several countries. [ 12 ] [ 16 ] Cocaine and heroin combined caused fewer deaths than prescriptions drugs in the United Kingdom in 2013, [ 17 ] [ 18 ] and fewer deaths than prescription opiates alone in the ...
The countries with the most homicides per unit population are generally countries with small populations (very narrow rectangles in chart, 2021). [1] The list of countries by homicide rate is derived from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) data, and is expressed in number of deaths per 100,000 population per year. For example, a ...
In Europe, prescription opioids account for three‐quarter of overdose deaths, which represent 3.5% of total deaths among 15-39-year-olds. [67] Some worry that the epidemic could become a worldwide pandemic if not curtailed. [26] Prescription drug abuse among teenagers in Canada, Australia, and Europe was comparable to U.S. teenagers. [26]
Europe 7 7 0 0 0 17,440,000 13.7 2023 3 deaths in incidents in which police used violence [63] New Zealand: Oceania 1 1 0 0 0 4,794,000 2.1 2018 One additional death ruled inconclusive [64] Norway: Europe 1 1 0 0 0 5,258,000 1.9 2016 [65] Finland: Europe 1 1 0 0 0 5,503,000 1.8 2018 [66] Nepal: Asia 5+ 5 0 0 0 29,300,000 1.7 2019 [67] Germany
Intentional homicide is defined by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in its Global Study on Homicide report [3] thus: . Within the broad range of violent deaths, the core element of intentional homicide is the complete liability of the direct perpetrator, which thus excludes killings directly related to war or conflicts, self-inflicted death (suicide), killings due to legal ...