Table 4.
Numbers and prevalence of current and ever injecting people in prisons, EU/EEA and United Kingdom (UK)
| Year | Current | Ever | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | ||
| Bulgaria° | 2016 | .. | .. | 576 | .. |
| Croatia^ | 2015 | .. | .. | 28 | 0·7 |
| Italy* | 2014 | 13,465 | 25·8 | 16,712 | 32·0 |
| Romania* | 2015 | .. | .. | 21 | .. |
| Slovakia* | 2015 | 408 | 4·5 | .. | .. |
| Spain* | 2015 | 3251 | 5·0 | 28,617 | 44·0 |
| UK England° | 2016 | 7163 | 18·0 | 13,958 | 35·0 |
| UK Northern Ireland° | 2016 | 76 | 0·1 | .. | .. |
Source: HIPED
.. No data
Reference population: *All people in prisons including those in remand prison/jail, ^Sentenced people only, °Missing
For the United Kingdom only, ever injectors were explicitly defined as current injectors + previous injectors