Editing Cocaine (section)

== Prevalence ==
{{Main|List of countries by prevalence of cocaine use}}
[[File:List of countries by prevalence of cocaine use.jpg|thumb|left|List of countries by prevalence of cocaine use]]

World annual cocaine consumption, as of 2000, stood at around 600 tonnes, with the United States consuming around 300&nbsp;t, 50% of the total, Europe about 150&nbsp;t, 25% of the total, and the rest of the world the remaining 150&nbsp;t or 25%.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.defenselink.mil/policy/sections/policy_offices/solic/cn/cocaine2.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080911061809/https://www.defenselink.mil/policy/sections/policy_offices/solic/cn/cocaine2.pdf|archive-date=11 September 2008|title=The Cocaine Threat: A Hemispheric Perspective|publisher=[[United States Department of Defense]]}}</ref> It is estimated that 1.5 million people in the United States used cocaine in 2010, down from 2.4 million in 2006.<ref name="Zimmerman2012" /> Conversely, cocaine use appears to be increasing{{When|date=January 2023}} in Europe with the highest prevalences in [[Spain]], the [[United Kingdom]], [[Italy]], and [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]].<ref name="Zimmerman2012" />

The 2010 UN [[World Drug Report]] concluded that "it appears that the North American cocaine market has declined in value from US$47 billion in 1998 to US$38 billion in 2008. Between 2006 and 2008, the value of the market remained basically stable".<ref name="Nations2010">{{Cite book|author=United Nations|title=World Drug Report 2010|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HB9PuEhHahQC&pg=PA77|date=June 2010|publisher=United Nations Publications|isbn=978-92-1-148256-0|page=77|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160426034255/https://books.google.com/books?id=HB9PuEhHahQC&pg=PA77 |archive-date=26 April 2016}}</ref>

{{Global estimates of illicit drug users}}

According to a 2016 United Nations report, [[England and Wales]] are the countries with the highest rate of cocaine usage (2.4% of adults in the previous year).<ref name="unodc">{{Cite web | title = World Drug Report 2016 (interactive map) | url = https://www.unodc.org/wdr2016/interactive-map.html | year = 2016 | publisher = United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime | url-status=live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180309120506/https://www.unodc.org/wdr2016/interactive-map.html | archive-date = 9 March 2018 | df = dmy-all }}</ref> Other countries where the usage rate meets or exceeds 1.5% are [[Spain]] and [[Scotland]] (2.2%), the United States (2.1%), Australia (2.1%), [[Uruguay]] (1.8%), [[Brazil]] (1.75%), [[Chile]] (1.73%), the [[Netherlands]] (1.5%) and Ireland (1.5%).<ref name="unodc" />

=== Europe ===
Cocaine is the second most popular illegal recreational drug in Europe (behind [[cannabis (drug)|cannabis]]). Since the mid-1990s, overall cocaine usage in Europe has been on the rise, but usage rates and attitudes tend to vary between countries.

Prevalence estimates for the general population: age ranges are 18-64 and 18-34 for Germany, Greece, France, Italy and Hungary; 16-64 and 16-34 for Denmark, Estonia and Norway; 18-65 for Malta; 17-34 for Sweden. Cocaine use in the general population is highest-ranging from 4.2% to 5.5%-in Denmark, Norway, Ireland, the Netherlands, in that order.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dashboard. Prevalence of cocaine use in Europe (updated June 2024) {{!}} www.euda.europa.eu |url=https://www.euda.europa.eu/media-library/edr24/dashboard-prevalence-cocaine-use-europe_en |website=www.euda.europa.eu}}</ref>

=== United States ===
{{Main|Cocaine in the United States}}
Cocaine is the second most popular illegal recreational drug in the United States (behind [[cannabis (drug)|cannabis]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.erowid.org/chemicals/cocaine/cocaine.shtml|title=Cocaine & Crack|publisher=Erowid.org|access-date=10 July 2007|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071006230957/https://www.erowid.org/chemicals/cocaine/cocaine.shtml |archive-date = 6 October 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> and the U.S. is the world's largest consumer of cocaine.<ref name="WFK Illicit drugs" /> Its users span over different ages, races, and professions. In the 1970s and 1980s, the drug became particularly popular in the [[disco]] culture as cocaine usage was very common and popular in many discos such as [[Studio 54]].