The International Organization for Migration estimates the human smuggling market in Africa to be worth $40 million.  Smugglers charge between $1,500 to $2,000 on average.

Source: Brian Hungwe, “Tracking Africa’s people smugglers,” BBC News, August 1, 2009.

According to Reuters, there are 80,000 drug-related deaths in Russia each year, with heroin use contributing to the majority of new HIV infections.

Source:  “FACTBOX: Global narcotics activities in 2008,” Reuters, February 28, 2009.

The estimated market value of the illegal drug market in Indonesia is $4 billion.

Source:  “Indonesia’s growing drug problem,” Asia Sentinel, September 7, 2006.

The Brazilian Association for the Development of Video Games finds that up to 94 percent of all video games sold in Brazil are pirated.

Source:  Pedro Franco, “A Nation of Pirates,” Escapist, May 12, 2009.

Up to 480,000 websites using the domain “co.uk” and selling products are not based in the United Kingdom.  A majority of these fake sites are actually located in China.

Up to 6 percent of all “co.uk” domain registrations are from foreign countries, with China leading the registrations. Most of these fake sites are used to sell counterfeit goods.

Source:  Brian Milligan, “‘Fake UK sites’ trick consumers ,” BBC News, July 31, 2009.

According to the Kenya Association of Manufacturers, the estimated losses to counterfeits in Kenya in 2008 was $642 million.

Source:  International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, “Kenya under Pressure to Change Anticounterfeiting Law,” Volume 13, Number 2, June 2009.

Cocaine from Colombia is trafficked through Venezuela and sold on the streets of Europe for $12.5 Billion (£7.5 Billion) a year.

Source:  John Carlin, “Revealed: Chavez role in cocaine trail to Europe,” The Observer, February 3, 2008.

According to the Israel Anti-drug Authority, the illegal drugs market in Israel is valued at $1.5 billion (6 billion shekels) a year.

Source:  “Overview of the drug situation in Israel,” Israel Anti-drug Authority, accessed: July 31, 2009.

According to researchers, the black market in marijuana is estimated to be valued at $98 million (150 million New Zealand).

Source:  Chris Wilkins and Sally Casswell, “The cannabis black market and the case for the legalisation of cannabis in New Zealand,” Social Policy Journal of New Zealand: Issue 18, June 2002.

According to the RiskMonitor Foundation, human trafficking in Bulgaria earns between $1.2 Billion and $1.8 Billion (900 Million Euros to 1.3 Billion Euros).  Between 8,000 and 12,000 Bulgarian citizens are victims of human trafficking.

Source: “Human Trafficking Brings Nearly 1 Billion EUR in Annual Revenue to Bulgarian Criminal Gangs,” GMF Blog, April 15, 2009.