Drug use : Lifetime prevalence (%) of cannabis use among students, ages 15-16 years, in Norway and the EU-25, male, female and total in 2003

Lifetime prevalence (%) of cannabis use among students, ages 15-16 years, in Norway and the EU-27, male, female and total in 2003 (sources: ESPAD Study, Hibell et al., 2004; EMCDDA, 2005)

Country	Male	Female	Total	Country	Male	Female	Total
Austria	23	18	21	Latvia	20	12	16
Belgium	37	28	32	Lithuania	18	9	13
Bulgaria	23	19	21	Malta	13	8	10
Cyprus	7	2	4	Netherlands	32	24	28
Czech Republic	48	40	44	Norway	9	9	9
Denmark	27	18	23	Poland	23	13	18
Estonia	28	18	23	Portugal	18	12	15
Finland	11	11	11	Romania	4	2	3
France	42	35	38	Slovakia	32	22	27
Germany^a	31	24	27	Slovenia	31	26	28
Greece	7	5	6	Spain	-	-	36
Hungary	18	13	16	Sweden	9	6	7
Ireland	38	39	39	United Kingdom	41	35	38
Italy	31	23	27

^a For Germany figures are based in six regions only (Bavaria, Brandenburg, Berlin, Hesse, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Thuringia).

- : no data available, countries without available data are not shown. Data from Spain are not from the ESPAD study but from a comparable Spanish study.

Remarks

'The international comparability of the ESPAD schools survey is based on nationally representative samples of school classes with the goal of having at least 2400 participating students from the target group, and by standardising the target age group (between 15 and 16 years), the questionnaire, data collection in schools, assurance of anonymity and the time of year that data collection takes place' (Source: EMCDDA: Studies of youth and the schools population - Methods and definitions).