Havocscope Black Market Index
Total Value: $809.55 Billion
Number of Contraband Products: 49
Average Products Value: $16.52 Billion
The Havocscope Black Market Index tracks 49 contraband products worldwide. The financial market and values of each products are based upon publicly available documents such as news reports and research studies. Each product or activity has each own post with a market summary and [...]
Global Marijuana Market Value: $141.80 Billion
According to the 2005 United Nations World Drug Report, the total value of world’s marijuana market is $141.80 Million.
158.8 million people use marijuana around the world.
Source:
United Nations, “2005 World Drug Report,” Office on Drugs and Crime, June 2005, pg. 134.
Counterfeit Technology Products Market Value: $100 Billion
IT companies lose an estimated $100 million to counterfeit technology products each year.
Source: KPMG and The Alliance for Gray Market and Counterfeit Abatement, “Managing the Risks of Counterfeiting in the Information Technology Industry” , White Paper, Pg. 2, August 2005 .
Cocaine Market Value: $70.45 Billion
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimates the total value of the global cocaine market to be valued at $70.45 billion.
Estimated number of cocaine users worldwide: 14.3 million.
Source: United Nations, ” 2005 World Drug Report,” Office on Drugs and Crime, June 2005, pg. 130.
Opium/Heroin Market Value: $64.82 Billion
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimates the total value of the global opium and heroin market to be valued at $64.82 billion.
Number of heroin users worldwide: 11.1 million.
Source: United Nations, ” 2005 World Drug Report,” Office on Drugs and Crime, June 2005, pg. 132.
Web Video Piracy Market Value: $60 Billion
Web Video Piracy is the act of uploading and downloading licensed content onto the Internet through sites such as YouTube.
$60 billion is lost to content producers due to web video piracy.
Source: Diane Mermigas, “Google-YouTube deal expands broadband nation,” Hollywood Reporter, October 10, 2006, (last accessed: September 26, 2007).
Cigarette Smuggling Market Value: $50 Billion
The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control estimates 600 billion cigarettes, or 11 percent of all cigarettes sold globally in 2006 were smuggled cigarettes. The loss in tax revenue worldwide was $50 billion.
Source:Jennifer M. Freedman, “Governments Trying to Battle Illegal Tobacco Trade,” Bloomberg News, February 11, 2008,(accessed: February 12, 2008).
Counterfeit Drugs Market Value: $40 Billion
Counterfeit Pharmaceutical Drugs are sold as legitimate brand name medicines but have been created without the authority of the brand owner.
Sales of counterfeit drugs are estimated at $40 billion a year.
Source: Katie Merx, “Can you tell which pills are fake?,” Detroit Free Press, July 26, 2006, and Judy Alta, “Counterfeit Drugs Seen as Growing Problem,” [...]
Software Piracy Market Value: $47.80 Billion
Software companies lost $47.809 Billion to piracy in 2007.
Source: Fifth Annual BSA And IDC Global Software Piracy Study, May 2008.
Human Trafficking Market Value: $32 Billion
$10 billion is generated based on the initial sale of a person.
If the profits from the activities that is produced by the person who is trafficked is included, then the International Labour Organization (ILO) states that the market value of human trafficking stands at $32 billion, leading to a profit of $13,000 per trafficked person.
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