There were 30 confirmed executions for drug offences in 2020, down from 116 in 2019. All of the executions took place in 3 countries (China, Iran and Saudi Arabia)

• At least 213 people received a death sentence for drug offences in 2020, up from 183 in 2019.
• Thirty-five countries still retain the death penalty for drug offences.
• There are at least 3,000 people currently on death row for drug offences worldwide.
• Vietnam alone accounted for over a third of all confirmed death sentences for drug offences in 2020.
• As of October 2020, there were 355 people on death row in Indonesia, of which 214 were convicted for drug offences (a 29% increase from 2019).
• Singapore did not carry executions for the first time since 2013.
• Data on the death penalty for drug offences is grossly insufficient, partly due to a lack of information on executions in China and Vietnam (both are reported to routinely execute people for drug offences).