Table SZR-8. Quantities (kg) of heroin seized, 1995–2011

Country		1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
Belgium		149	133	65	76	74	185	:	48	51	142	270	154	548	63	275	386	140
Bulgaria	(1)	:	:	:	:	:	206	1545	1060	831	832	437	726	1300	1227	1183	330	385
Czech Republic		:	:	:	:	:	:	:	34	9	36	36	28	20	46	31	31	5
Denmark		37	61	38	55	96	32	25	63	16	38	27	29	48	44	22	39	37
Germany		933	898	722	686	796	796	836	520	626	775	787	879	1074	503	758	474	498
Estonia		:	:	0	1	1	0.4	1	4	0.1	0.2	0.4	4	6	0.1	4	0.004	0.048
Ireland		6	11	8	38	17	24	30	17	27	27	33	130	147	207	79	30	32
Greece		173	190	146	185	97	660	330	324	247	315	331	312	259	448	595	521	307
Spain		546	537	479	418	1159	484	631	275	242	271	174	472	227	548	300	233	412
France		499	617	415	344	203	444	351	476	545	558	749	1052	1036	1118	970	1088	883
Italy		954	1270	477	715	1310	1012	2058	2593	2592	2557	1374	1329	1897	1313	1156	944	811
Cyprus	(2)	:	:	:	:	2	5	2	0.3	2	3	0.9	1	1	3	0	0.1	0.6
Latvia		0.9	0	0.1	0.1	0.8	0.8	0.5	6	0.6	0.5	0.04	0.2	2	2	2	1	0.4
Lithuania		:	:	:	:	0.9	1	3	3	0.8	3	2	5	6	14	4	10	11
Luxembourg		13	3	3	4	2	3	1	3	4	6	4	9	9	8	5	5	24
Hungary		:	:	:	:	:	670	154	160	256	90	238	131	80	29	125	98	3
Malta		:	:	:	:	:	:	3	1	6	0.8	15	2	:	8	8	5	4
Netherlands	(6)	351	516	999	784	770	896	739	1122	417	1200	900	1000	520	:	:	548	400
Austria		47	81	102	118	78	230	288	60	43	235	282	34	117	104	190	96	65
Poland		:	:	:	:	:	217	389	299	7	255	41	155	124	79	86	25	51
Portugal	(3)	66	47	57	97	76	568	316	96	72	99	182	144	62	68	128	47	73
Romania		:	:	:	:	:	53	33	20	321	65	285	33	130	385	85	108	13
Slovenia	(4)	:	:	:	:	:	393	89	69	89	144	134	182	60	137	42	36	4
Slovakia		:	11	90	14	6	99	16	15	7	2	4	2	2	13	14	1	0.3
Finland		16	6	2	2	3	6	8	3	2	0.2	52	0.2	0.4	0.2	2	0.4	1.0
Sweden		31	26	12	71	64	30	32	59	13	34	19	103	30	55	31	58	21
United Kingdom		1395	1070	2235	1348	2346	3387	3929	2732	2732	2170	1907	1031	1059	1552	1516	832	1849
Croatia		:	:	:	:	:	:	20	37	86	114	27	82	74	153	59	94	33
Turkey	(5)	:	:	:	:	:	:	3710	2657	4705	8847	8173	10312	13228	15447	16059	12690	7294
Norway		49	74	56	38	46	52	68	59	52	129	36	93	8	55	130	102	15
Total		5266	5551	5906	4994	7148	10454	15606	12815	13999	18950	16522	18434	22075	23627	23859	18834

Notes:

A fuller historical series, back to 1985 for reporting countries, is available in the Supplementary tables section of this Statistical bulletin

Numbers are rounded to the nearest kg except for quantities less than 1 kg where more precise information is provided when available.

(1) 5658 doses of heroin were also seized in 2005, 112 in 2006, and 101 in 2007.

(2) 1.9 ml of heroin were also seized in 2007, 76 ml in 2008 and 2 ml in 2009 .

(3) There were also 5 doses of liquid heroin seized in 2001.

(4) 225.5 ml of liquid heroin was also seized in 2008 and 19.6 ml in 2009.

(5) 331.4 kg liquid heroine were also seized in 2009.

(6) In 2008 and 2009 UNODC figures are available: 803 and 596 respectively. In 2010 because of possible incompleteness and unknown unreliability figures were truncated by the WODC. In 2010 because of possible incompleteness and unknown unreliability figures were truncated by the WODC. Four police regions did not report about seizures. Figures include seizures by Customs and Military Police. Figures are a ‘reasonable indication’. Also 253 heroin balls were seized.

Source:

Reitox national focal points. See Table SZR-0 part (i) and Table SZR-0 part (ii)

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