Trends in drug-induced deaths in the European Union, Norway and Türkiye (updated June 2024)

Note. For Germany, from the year 2021 the data fully comply with the European protocol defining cases to be extracted from special mortality registers such as those of police and forensic services. Comparable data for the previous years is not available. For this series and graph, the previous years where filled in with the first available datapoint (2021) in order to avoid mixing of different data series with different methods. However, it should be noted that Germany saw an increase in drug-related deaths during this period, according to the national definition.