Bangladesh Black Market Value: $0.315 Billion ($315 Million)

World Average: $20.34 Billion

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Data on Bangladesh Black Market


Use of steroids in the prostitution industry in Bangladesh

90 percent of women aged 15 to 35 working in the prostitution trade in Bangladesh use steroids in order to appear more attractive to customers.

Source:  US Department of State, “Country Narrative: Banladesh,” Trafficking in Persons Report 2010, June 2010.

100,000 people involved in drug trade in Bangladesh

Filed under: Asia, Drug Trafficking

According to the Department of Narcotics Control in Bangladesh, about 100,000 people are involved in the illegal drug trade in Bangladesh, with a majority based out of the capital Dhaka.

Out of the 100,000 people, thirty percent are believed to be women and children.

Source: “Addicts spend Tk 46 crore a day on drugs,” Bangladesh News, June 26, 2008.

Price of Marijuana in Asia

Filed under: Asia, Drug Trafficking

Price is in US Dollars and represents the typical price of Marijuana in Asia.

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Country Wholesale Price
(per kilogram
Retail Price
(per gram)
Afghanistan 56 NA
Australia 6,112.8 20.9
Bangladesh 29.3 0.2
China NA 0.8
Hong Kong 1,833.5 8.3
India 85 NA
Indonesia 244.9 0.2
Japan 16,997.2 51
Laos 14 NA
Malaysia 423 NA
Myanmar 130 0.2
New Zealand 6,071.4 16.5
Philippines 475 0.5
Singapore 2,527.7 22.2
South Korea 1,040 6.5
Thailand 217.2 1.4

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

$180 million music piracy market in Bangladesh

According to Agence France Presse, original music producers account for 5 to 10 percent of sales in the $200 million music market in Bangladesh. The remaining $180 million are sales of pirated copies.

Source: Shafiq Alam, AFP, ” Bangladesh music producers take law into own hands to fight piracy,” Yahoo News, August 17, 2006.

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