Table X

Table X: Drug-related deaths in Scotland - different definitions¹, 1979 to 2015
Year	Number of drug-related deaths, on the basis of:			Population	Drug-deaths per million population
Year	this paper (based on UK Drug Strategy 'baseline' definition)	Office for National Statistics 'wide' definition	European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction 'general mortality register' definition²	Population	this paper (based on UK Drug Strategy 'baseline' definition)	Office for National Statistics 'wide' definition	European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction 'general mortality register' definition²
Footnotes: Refer to Annex B for information about the other definitions. The figures for some of the years from 2000 to 2014 have been revised slightly from those that were published in 'Drug-related Deaths in Scotland in 2014'.
1979		339		5,203,600		65.1
1980		306		5,193,900		58.9
1981		307		5,180,200		59.3
1982		265		5,164,540		51.3
1983		212		5,148,120		41.2
1984		201		5,138,880		39.1
1985		242		5,127,890		47.2
1986		223		5,111,760		43.6
1987		250		5,099,020		49
1988		238		5,077,440		46.9
1989		264		5,078,190		52
1990		275		5,081,270		54.1
1991		275		5,083,330		54.1
1992		311		5,085,620		61.2
1993		372		5,092,460		73
1994		422		5,102,210		82.7
1995		426		5,103,690		83.5
1996	244	460	208	5,092,190	47.9	90.3	40.8
1997	224	447	188	5,083,340	44.1	87.9	37
1998	249	449	230	5,077,070	49	88.4	45.3
1999	291	492	272	5,071,950	57.4	97	53.6
2000	292	495	320	5,062,940	57.7	97.8	63.2
2001	332	551	378	5,064,200	65.6	108.8	74.6
2002	382	566	417	5,066,000	75.4	111.7	82.3
2003	317	493	331	5,068,500	62.5	97.3	65.3
2004	356	546	387	5,084,300	70	107.4	76.1
2005	336	480	352	5,110,200	65.8	93.9	68.9
2006	421	577	415	5,133,100	82	112.4	80.8
2007	455	630	450	5,170,000	88	121.9	87
2008	574	737	559	5,202,900	110.3	141.7	107.4
2009	545	716	534	5,231,900	104.2	136.9	102.1
2010	485	692	482	5,262,200	92.2	131.5	91.6
2011	584	749	558	5,299,900	110.2	141.3	105.3
2012	581	734	549	5,313,600	109.3	138.1	103.3
2013	527	685	516	5,327,700	98.9	128.6	96.9
2014	613	743	574	5,347,600	114.6	138.9	107.3
2015	706	813	637	5,373,000	131.4	151.3	118.6