The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) recently published its ‘2024 European Drug Report’ and the report contained data regarding cannabis usage rates. Every year the EMCDDA compiles reported substance usage data from most European countries and publishes an annual report of their findings.
Below are the reported lifetime cannabis use rates (consumed cannabis at least once in their lifetime) for the European countries listed in the EMCDDA ‘2024 European Drug Report.’ The age range for the data is 15-64 years old, and each listing includes the corresponding year that the survey data was collected:
Austria: 22.7% (2020 data)
Belgium: 22.6% (2018 data)
Bulgaria: 8.7% (2020 data)
Croatia: 22.9% (2019 data)
Czechia: 29.9% (2020 data)
Denmark: 37.6% (2023 data)
Estonia: 24.5% (2018 data)
Finland: 31.2% (2022 data)
France: 47.3% (2021 data)
Germany: 34.7% (2021 data)
Hungary: 6.1% (2019 data)
Ireland: 24.4% (2019 data)
Italy: 34.8% (2022 data)
Latvia: 15% (2020 data)
Lithuania: 13.7% (2021 data)
Luxembourg: 23.3% (2019 data)
Malta: 4.3% (2013 data)
Netherlands: 28.8% (2022 data)
Norway: 27.1% (2022 data)
Poland: 12.1% (2018 data)
Portugal: 12.2% (2022 data)
Romania: 6.1% (2019 data)
Slovakia: 23.1% (2023 data)
Slovenia: 20.7% (2018 data)
Spain: 40.9% (2022 data)
Sweden: 17.8% (2022 data)
Currently, cannabis cultivation, possession, and use is legal for adults in Malta, Luxembourg, and Germany. Regional adult-use cannabis commerce trials are operating in several jurisdictions in the Netherlands and Switzerland. Voters in Slovenia approved an adult-use consultation referendum measure on June 9th, 2024, although the election result is non-binding.