A report found that Afghans paid nearly $1 Billion in bribes in 2009, with nearly 1 in 7 people regularly paying bribes.

Source:  “Survey Finds Corruption Doubled in Afghanistan,” Voice of America, July 8, 2010.

140 tons of heroin from Afghanistan enters Iran each year.

Source:  UNODC, “The Globalization of Crime,” Chapter 5: Heroin, June 2010.

The Government of Afghanistan seizes on average 1 percent of the opium produced within the country.

Source:  UNODC, “The Globalization of Crime,” Chapter 5: Heroin, June 2010.

50 percent of the heroin market in Australia is supplied by Afghan heroin.

Source:  UNODC, “The Globalization of Crime,” Chapter 5: Heroin, June 2010.

25 percent of the heroin market in China is supplied by Afghan heroin.

Source:  UNODC, “The Globalization of Crime,” Chapter 5: Heroin, June 2010.

According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Afghanistan provided 95 percent of the global supply of opium in 2009.

Source:  UNODC, “The Globalization of Crime,” Chapter 5: Heroin, June 2010.

Russian President Dmitri Medvedev stated that in the years 2001 to 2009, nearly one million people under the age of 35 have died around the world from overdosing on heroin from Afghanistan.

Source:  Peter Fedynsky, “Russia Urges Global Struggle Against Afghan Heroin,” Voice of America, June 9, 2010.

Every year, opium from Afghanistan causes the deaths of 100,000 people around the world.

Source:  IANS, “Sharp increase in drug-related deaths in Moscow,” Malaysian Star, June 1, 2010.