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Canada: number of drug-related offences from 2000 to 2017

Number of drug-related offences in Canada from 2000 to 2017

The data displays the total number of drug-related offences in Canada from 2000 to 2017. There were 90,625 drug-related offences nationwide in Canada in 2017.

Drug-related Crime Drug-related crime is any crime that has to do with the manufacture, sale, possession or transportation of a substance illegal under Canada’s criminal code. Drug-related crime is one of the few areas of crime in Canada that has not been on the decline over the last few decades. Over the period of 2000 to 2014 the rate of drug-related offences in Canada has remained virtually unchanged.

2000 88091
2001 89395
2002 92781
2003 86791
2004 97630
2005 93664
2006 96175
2007 101208
2008 102271
2009 97963
2010 109222
2011 113345
2012 110093
2013 109091
2014 104518
2015 99827
2016 96515
2017 90625