Organ Trafficking Market Value: $50 Million
Havocscope is currently estimating the illicit market value for organ trafficking to be $50 million based on the following sources.
1. According to the World Health Organization, the average price paid to a kidney donor on the black market is ” likely to be about US $5000.
2. An article from Reuters quoted [...]
Organ trafficking brokers in Philippines paid $1,000 to $1,500 per transplant
Source: Carolos H. Conde, “Philippines cracks down on illegal kidney trade,” International Herald Tribune, April 29, 2008.
$2,000 to $10,000 to sell kidney in Philippines
Filipinos selling their kidneys on the black market can receive between $2,000 to $10,000.
Source: Carlos H. Conde, “Philippines cracks down on illegal kidney trade,” International Herald Tribune, April 29, 2008.
Top 5 locations for organ trafficking
The World Health Organization and Reuters produced a factsheet stating the top five locations where organ trafficking is prevalent.[2] The countries are as follows:
1. China
2. Pakistan
3. Egypt
4. Colombia
5. Philippines
Source: Reuters, “FACTBOX: Five Organ Trafficking hotspots,” Reuters.com, August 6, 2007.
$2,500 to $3,000 for organs in Moldova
Organ sellers in Moldova receive between $2,500 to $3,000, with recipients paying between $100,000 to $250,000.
Source: Carl Kovac, “Kidney trafficking is ” big business,”says Council of Europe,” British Medical Journal, August 2, 2003,(accessed: March 13, 2007).
Kidney brokers in Moldova paid $100 to $200
In Moldova, brokers are paid $100 or $200 for each person they recruit to sell their kidneys.
Source: Peter Baker, “In Struggling Moldova, Desperation Drives Decisions,” Washington Post, November 7, 2002,(accessed: March 13, 2007).
Canadians pay $75,000 for kidney transplant in China
In Canada, as many as 50 people are believed to have paid as much as $75,000 for a kidney transplant in China. The organs are believed to have been culled from executed Chinese prisoners.
Source: Tom Blackwell, “Canadians buy organs culled in executions,” National Post, May 6, 2006,(accessed: May 19, 2006).
People paying between $100,000 to $150,000 for trafficked kidney
Published news articles have reported of individuals paying between $100,000 to $150,000 for a trafficked kidney.
Source: Abraham McLaughlin, Ilene R. Prusher, and Andrew Downie, “What is a kidney worth?” ,Christian Science Monitor, June 9, 2004,(last accessed: January 19, 2006), and Larry Rohther, “Tracking the Sale of a Kidney on a Path of Poverty and Hope” [...]
10 percent of world supply of organs comes from poor individuals
According to Reuters, ” Commercial living donors, mainly poor and vulnerable individuals in need of money, are thought to supply 10 percent of the world’s transplanted kidneys.
Source: Reuters, ” FACTBOX: The who, what, where, and why of organ trafficking,” Reuters.com, August 6, 2007.
Demand for trafficked organs
The Economist, “In America, the average waiting time for a kidney is now five years, up from less than a year in the 1980s. In Britain, there are around 6,000 people who need a transplant - and less than 2,000 such operation take place each year.”
Source: ” Organ Transplants: Your part or mine?,” The Economist, [...]
