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Drug-related deaths and mortality rates in Americas

Submitted by URAHMONB on 21 June 2018 - 7:41am

AFRICA

AMERICAS

ASIA

EUROPE

OCEANIA

 

Number of drug-related deaths, mortality rates per million persons aged 15-64 years and ranking of drugs as primary cause of death

(2016 or latest year available)

Region/Sub-Region/Country

Source

Year
of
estimate

National
estimate
( Y / N )

Number
of
deaths

Reference
population
(15 - 64)*

Rate**
per million
aged 15-64

Ranking of drugs as primary cause of death

Fatal
drug
overdoses
(%)

Cannabis

Opioids

Cocaine

ATS

Tranqui-
lizers
 and
sedatives

Halluci-
nogens

Solvents
 and
inhalants

Other
substances
not under
international
control

Argentina

ARQ

2015

Y

286

27,734,296

10.31

                

6.99%

Bahamas

ARQ

2007

Y

2

235,536

8.49

                

0.00%

Brazil

ARQ

2015

Y

481

143,204,007

3.36

2

4

1

6

7

3

5

  

 

Canada

ARQ

2016

Y

2458

24,479,805

100.41

                

 

Costa Rica

ARQ

2010

Y

21

3,089,117

6.80

                

57.00%

Dominican Republic

ARQ

2008

N

135

-

 

2

  

1

3

        

 

Ecuador

ARQ

2014

Y

17

10,197,616

1.67

                

 

El Salvador

CICAD

2016

N

1

 

 

                

 

Honduras

ARQ

2015

N

1

-

 

    

1

          

100.00%

Mexico

ARQ

2015

Y

504

83,145,725

6.06

2

6

3

4

1

7

5

  

 

Nicaragua

ARQ

2014

Y

11

3,879,978

2.84

                

 

Panama

ARQ

2012

Y

1

2,425,439

0.41

    

1

          

 

Paraguay

ARQ

2016

N

1

2,000,000

0.50

                

 

Peru

ARQ

2011

Y

42

19,248,172

2.18

            

1

  

 

Trinidad and Tobago

ARQ

2009

Y

3

940,242

3.19

    

1

          

 

United States of America

ARQ

2015

Y

63,632

211,622,891

300.69

  

1

2

3

        

100.00%

Uruguay

ARQ

2015

Y

264

2,201,356

119.93

        

1

      

 

Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

ARQ

2010

N

197

3,562,634

55.30

2

4

1

5

3

      

39.09%

*   Reference population refers to the population aged 15-64 sourced from the United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, World Population Prospects 2015 Revision, or the reference population as specified in the ARQ for sub-populations.

 ** Unless an age breakdown of drug-related deaths is available, rate is calculated using the reported total number of drug-related deaths, based on the assumption that drug-related deaths occur mainly within the 15-64 age bracket.