Drug-related crimes registered by the Ministry of Interior in Bulgaria (2008 – 2024)

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Number of drug-related crimes (Art. 242, para. 2-3, Art. 354a-354c PC) registered by the Ministry of Interior in Bulgaria (2008 – 2024)

Year	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
Registered crimes (total)	2856	3661	3762	2855	2953	3047	3235	4004	4736	4987	5529	5462	4904	4904	5349	5683	6718
of which:
with unknown offender	1658	1990	2096	1685	1447	1490	1382	1730	1864	2052	2616	2743	2846	2933	3249	3518	4011
in public places	1766	2225	2282	1428	1368	1456	1699	2118	2501	2829	3110	3101	2630	2565	2867	3176	4013
in a regional centre / city	2551	3169	3255	2323	2407	2481	2662	3270	3836	4047	4552	4499	3843	3993	4383	4765	5630
in a village	154	285	275	358	353	381	337	386	494	504	511	545	652	533	606	596	711
outside populated areas	114	169	117	112	152	151	171	196	272	290	290	275	252	246	240	233	243
in a villa area	13	7	12	10	13	15	19	18	12	31	20	22	21	22	16	17	17
in a border area	24	31	35	26	8	11	36	12	22	26	68	45	100	70	60	38	51
at the border crossing	–	–	68	26	20	8	10	13	11	5	5	9	8	5	15	8	8

Number of crimes regarding contraband of drugs (Art. 242, para. 2-3 PC) registered by the Ministry of Interior in Bulgaria (2008 – 2024)

Year	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
Registered crimes (Art. 242, para. 2-3 PC)	26	53	150	54	20	6	11	13	13	7	12	11	7	9	8	13	14
of which:
with unknown offender	14	40	103	40	10	3	4	7	3	3	7	6	3	8	6	9	12
in public places	14	41	54	22	8	3	0	1	0	2	3	2	3	1	6	2	3
in a regional centre / city	10	39	46	9	4	1	1	2	0	2	3	0	1	0	0	2	5
in a village	0	0	3	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	3
outside populated areas	2	0	2	0	1	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	2	0
in a villa area	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
in a border area	14	14	34	20	1	0	2	0	3	3	6	4	2	4	1	3	3
at the border crossing	–	–	65	24	13	4	7	10	9	1	3	6	4	4	5	6	3

Number of crimes regarding production, possession, distribution, transportation of drugs (Art. 354a PC) registered by the Ministry of Interior in Bulgaria (2008 – 2024)

Year	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
Registered crimes (Art. 354a, PC)	2771	3441	3468	2561	2645	2763	2974	3711	4428	4703	5199	5136	4553	4554	5020	5405	6361
of which:
with unknown offender	1602	1845	1896	1468	1241	1294	1189	1519	1668	1866	2356	2500	2535	2622	2964	3279	3702
in public places	1747	2174	2216	1391	1350	1440	1686	2099	2472	2809	3082	3076	2610	2533	2826	3144	3971
in a regional centre / city	2517	3056	3150	2227	2304	2396	2593	3163	3723	3960	4458	4396	3756	3905	4279	4667	5504
in a village	131	211	210	239	223	250	262	293	392	414	430	454	546	427	505	513	609
outside populated areas	103	153	93	82	100	102	96	122	200	207	196	190	187	157	170	177	157
in a villa area	12	5	11	5	6	9	13	15	12	25	16	19	16	18	10	15	11
in a border area	8	16	1	6	5	2	7	6	10	9	14	7	16	12	17	5	17
at the border crossing	–	–	3	2	7	4	3	3	2	4	2	3	4	1	10	2	5

Number of crimes regarding persuasion or assistance to other people to use drugs (Art. 354b PC) registered by the Ministry of Interior in Bulgaria (2008 – 2024)

Year	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
Registered crimes (Art. 354b, PC)	3	7	1	2	6	7	2	4	4	5	5	6	2	7	8	10	11
of which:
with unknown offender	2	4	0	0	2	1	1	4	3	5	5	2	2	7	7	10	5
in public places	1	4	1	0	2	1	1	1	1	2	3	3	2	3	2	4	9
in a regional centre / city	3	7	1	1	4	3	2	4	4	5	5	6	2	6	8	9	1
in a village	0	0	0	1	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
outside populated areas	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
in a villa area	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
in a border area	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0

Number of crimes regarding planting or cultivation of narcotic plants (Art. 354c PC) registered by the Ministry of Interior in Bulgaria (2008 – 2024)

Year	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
Registered crimes (Art. 354c, PC)	56	160	143	238	282	271	248	276	291	272	313	309	342	334	313	255	332
of which:
with unknown offender	40	101	97	177	194	192	188	200	190	178	248	235	306	288	272	220	286
in public places	4	6	11	15	8	12	12	17	28	16	22	20	15	28	33	26	34
in a regional centre / city	21	67	58	86	95	81	66	101	109	80	86	97	84	82	96	87	112
in a village	23	74	62	117	128	128	75	92	102	90	81	90	106	105	100	82	98
outside populated areas	9	16	22	30	51	47	74	74	71	82	94	85	65	89	69	54	85
in a villa area	1	2	1	5	6	6	6	3	0	6	4	3	5	4	6	2	6
in a border area	2	1	0	0	2	9	27	6	9	14	48	34	82	53	42	30	31