Kenya Black Market Value: $0.747 Billion ($747 Million)

World Average: $20.34 Billion

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Data on Kenya Black Market


Price of Cocaine in Africa

Filed under: Africa, Drug Trafficking

Price is in US Dollars and represents the typical price of Cocaine in Africa.

Country Wholesale Price
(per kilogram
Retail Price
(per gram)
Egypt 62,179.2 78.7
Kenya NA 31.3
Nigeria 19,610 32.5
South Africa NA 35.4

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Source:  UNODC, “World Drug Report 2009: Section 3.4 Prices, pages 215 to 234,” June 2009.

Price of Heroin in Africa

Filed under: Africa, Drug Trafficking

Prices are in US Dollars and represent the typical price of heroin in Africa.

Country Wholesale Price
(per kilogram)
Retail Price
(per gram)
Kenya 16,145.4 1.9
Egypt 14,212.4 11.5
Libya 39,370.1 NA
South Africa NA 25.5
Zimbabwe NA 27.1
Nigeria 20,780 26.4

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Source: UNODC, “World Drug Report 2009: Section 3.4 Prices, pages 215 to 234,” June 2009.

$260 Million in losses from counterfeit goods in Kenya

Source: John Kariuki, ” New counterfeit law proposes $20,000 fine for offenders” , East African, May 30, 2005.

$130 million market in fake drugs in Kenya

The market in fake drugs is estimated to be worth 130 Million US Dollars in Kenya.

Source: John Kariuki, “New counterfeit law proposes $20,000 fine for offenders”,East African, May 30, 2005,(last accessed: May 10, 2006).

Counterfeit auto parts in Kenya

Motor dealers in Kenya lost 65 percent of their market share to counterfeits in 2006, up from 50 percent in 2005. In addition, over 80 percent of Toyota parts in Kenya were found to be counterfeit.

Source:  Roselyne Obala and Jane Akinyi, ” Revenue authority to investigate sale of counterfeit Toyota parts,” The Standard (Kenya), April 3, 2007.

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