Cocaine use in Europe 2022

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As of 2022, the Netherlands had the highest prevalence of cocaine use in Europe at 2.5 percent of the population having used in the previous year. This was followed by Spain and Ireland, with 2.4 percent and 2.3 percent of their respective populations using cocaine in this period.

Breakdown of cocaine users in the Netherlands

When broken down by age, the highest prevalence of cocaine users in the Netherlands is found in early adulthood. Almost five percent of those aged 25 to 29 years used cocaine in 2020, and around 12 percent of this age group had tried it at least once in their life/

Harms of cocaine use

In 2020, over 2.6 thousand people in the Netherlands entered drug treatment as a result of cocaine use. Furthermore, in the last 15 years the annual number of deaths due to cocaine use in the country has been steadily increasing. A new-high was reached in 2020, with 61 cocaine deaths recorded in the Netherlands.

Prevalence of cocaine use in the last year in Europe as of 2022*, by country

Characteristic	Share of population
Netherlands	2.5%
Spain	2.4%
Ireland	2.3%
Croatia	1.8%
Germany	1.6%
France	1.6%
Austria	1.5%
Denmark	1.5%
Norway	1.5%
Belgium	1.4%
Latvia	1.3%
Sweden	1.3%
Italy	1.2%
Estonia	1%
Czechia	0.9%
Finland	0.9%
Slovenia	0.8%
Lithuania	0.6%
Bulgaria	0.6%
Cyprus	0.5%
Luxembourg	0.5%
Romania	0.5%
Greece	0.4%
Hungary	0.3%
Poland	0.3%
Portugal	0.2%
Slovakia	0.1%
Turkey	0.1%