Number of drug users worldwide

Posted on August 21, 2008
Filed Under global drug trade |

According to the United Nations, 208 million people or 4.9 percent of the world’s population aged 15 to 64 used drugs at least once in the last 12 months. 

Source: UNODC, “2008 World Drug Report,” June 2008.

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