Drug offences

Criminal offences recorded by the police in a year that involve unlawful dealings in controlled substances or their precursors — possession and trafficking together. This is an enforcement record, not a count of people who use drugs: a rise can mean more use, more policing, or both, and nothing in this data separates them. The second table is the same offences per 100,000 residents.

The published series begins in 2008; there is no earlier data here, and the years before it are not part of it.

Milestones

Rate per 100,000 residents

2008: 57.2 per 100,000 → 2024: 151.9 per 100,000

Method and caveats

Eurostat’s crim_off_cat table, Lithuania, offence category ICCS 0601. Annual and gap-free from 2008 to 2024. Eurostat rather than Statistics Lithuania, because no long Lithuanian drug series is still being published: in the indicator database the recorded-offence tables (S3R540, S3R720, S3R029) end in 2012 and are marked as not renewed, the treatment and addiction tables (S3R027, S3R706, S3R984, S3R985) end in 2014–2015, and none of the causes-of-death classifications published there carries a drug cause at all (checked 12 August 2026). The same numbers were once published nationally: for 2008–2012 the Eurostat series agrees to the unit with the sum of crimes and misdemeanours in table S3R540 (1,837, 2,189, 2,214, 2,256 and 3,006). The rate per 100,000 is Eurostat’s own division, using the 1 January population as published at the time; for 2016 and 2020 that population was later revised after the 2021 census, so those two years no longer divide exactly into today’s figures. The page publishes Eurostat’s rate as published and does not recompute it.