Table A6: Other indicators

  Drug-induced deaths (aged 15–64) HIV diagnoses attributed to injecting drug use (ECDC) Injecting drug use estimate Syringes distributed through specialised programmes
Country cases per million population (count) cases per million population (count) Year of estimate cases per 1 000 population count
Belgium 9 (67) 1.3 (15) 2015 2.3–4.6 1 034 242
Bulgaria 4 (17) 3.6 (26) 364 111
Czech Republic 6 (39) 0.4 (4) 2015 6.1–6.4 6 421 095
Denmark 58 (210) 1.4 (8)
Germany 22 (1 185) 1.7 (134)
Estonia 103 (88) 41.9 (55) 2009 4.3–10.8 2 136 691
Ireland 1 71 (213) 10.8 (50) 393 275
Greece 0 (0) 6.4 (70) 2015 0.6–1.0 268 157
Spain 1 15 (455) 2.1 (96) 2014 0.2–0.3 1 483 399
France 1 7 (294) 0.9 (58) 2014 2.1–3.2 12 314 781
Croatia 19 (54) 0.5 (2) 2012 0.4–0.6 923 650
Italy 8 (304) 1.8 (112)
Cyprus 15 (9) 1.2 (1) 2015 0.3–0.7 164
Latvia 14 (18) 44.3 (88) 2012 7.3–11.7 524 949
Lithuania 59 (115) 15.1 (44) 200 630
Luxembourg 31 (12) 24.9 (14) 2009 4.5–6.9 361 392
Hungary 4 (25) 0.2 (2) 2015 1 188 696
Malta 28 (8) 0 (0) 340 644
Netherlands 16 (182) 0.1 (1) 2008 0.2–0.2
Austria 26 (152) 2.6 (22) 5 953 919
Poland 9 (249) 1 (37) 10 142
Portugal 6 (39) 4.2 (44) 2012 1.9–2.5 1 004 706
Romania 2 (21) 7.1 (142) 1 425 592
Slovenia 22 (30) 0.5 (1) 500 757
Slovakia 7 (27) 0.6 (3) 347 162
Finland 43 (150) 1.3 (7) 2012 4.1–6.7 5 301 000
Sweden 100 (618) 1.5 (15) 2008–11 1.3 281 397
United Kingdom 2 60 (2 528) 2.8 (182) 2004–11 2.9–3.2
Turkey 10 (533) 0.2 (13)
Norway 76 (257) 1.5 (8) 2014 2.2–3.0 2 500 192
European Union 21.3 (7 109) 2.4 (1 233)
EU, Turkey and Norway 20.3 (7 899) 2.1 (1 254)
NB

Caution is required when comparing drug-induced deaths due to issues of coding, coverage and under-reporting in some countries.

  1. Syringes distributed through specialised programmes refer to 2014.
  2. UK syringe data: England, no data; Scotland, 4 376 456 and Wales, 3 398 314 (both in 2015); Northern Ireland, 292 390 (2014).
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