Ukraine Black Market Value: $4.2 Billion

World Average: $15.54 Billion

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Data on Ukraine


Cigarette Smuggling in Ukraine

Filed under: Europe, Vice

The illegal cigarette smuggling market in Ukraine is estimated to be worth $2.1 Billion a year.

Source:  Vlad Lavrov, “Ukraine’s ‘Lost’ Cigarettes Flood Europe,” Tobacco Underground, Center for Public Integrity, June 28, 2009.

Value of Ukraine Sex Industry

Filed under: Europe, Humans, Vice

Police officials in Ukraine estimate that in 2009 the value of Ukraine’s sex industry will be $1.5 Billion.

Source:  James Marson, “Ukraine’s other crisis: Weak currency, cheap flights spur ’sex tourism’,” Christian Science Monitor, June 13, 2009.

Price of Marijuana in Europe

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

Country Wholesale Price
(per kilogram
Retail Price
(per gram)
Austria 4,110.7 13
Czech Republic 6,357.9 8.2
Finland 12,332.1 24
France 3,425.6 8.2
Germany 4,521.8 11.2
Greece 630 4.1
Hungary 2,780.3 11.9
Ireland 16,442.9 6.9
Italy 1,717.7 10
Moldova NA 1.6
Netherlands NA 7.3
Poland 5,140 11.6
Romania 1,918.3 8.9
Russia 2,984.3 6.7
Spain 1,103 4.2
Sweden 9,635.3 11.5
Switzerland 4,602.5 8.4
Ukraine NA 3
United Kingdom 2,615.7 8

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

Price of Cocaine in Europe

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

Country Wholesale Price
(per kilogram
Retail Price
(per gram)
Austria 61,660.7 99.3
Czech Republic 93,847.6 102.8
Denmark 40,444.9 73.5
Finland 61,660.7 109.6
France 41,107.2 96.9
Germany 48,825.7 86.2
Greece 62,735 109.8
Hungary 46,674.4 80.3
Ireland 82,214.3 95.9
Italy 56,029.1 111.8
Moldova 100,000 138
Netherlands 42,408.9 58.9
Norway 61,660.7 164.4
Poland 38,538 63.7
Russia 126,481 218
Spain 46,274.3 83.2
Sweden 44,351.5 75.3
Switzerland 44,351.5 75.3
United Kingdom 74,446.7 90.5
Ukraine NA 160

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

Price of Methamphetamines in Europe

Price is in US Dollars and represent the typical price of Methamphetamines in Europe.

Country Wholesale Price
(per kilogram)
Retail Price
(per gram)
Austria 9,589 27.4
Czech Republic 40,082 56.2
Finland 7,876.7 27.4
Norway 10,958.9 85.6
Russia 40,833.3 61.3
Ukraine 6,066.5 NA

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

Price of Heroin in Europe

Price is in US Dollars and represent the typical price of Heroin in Europe

Country Wholesale Price
(per kilogram)
Retail Price
(per gram)
Austria 54,809 99.3
Czech Republic 41,449 54.8
Denmark (No.4) 64,344.2 165.5
Finland 54,809 150.7
France (No.4) 41,107 68.5
Germany 25,809.8 47.7
Greece 19,450 75.3
Hungary (No.4) 56,839 NA
Ireland 33,967 274
Italy (No.4) 52,069.1 89.2
Netherlands 16,956.7 32.9
Norway 58,235.1 239.8
Poland 20,553.6 77.4
Russia (No.4)a 39,458.3 96.9
Spain 47,670.3 85.9
Sweden 37,059 91.6
Switzerland 23,179.9 41.8
Turkey 8,564 19.9
Ukraine (No.4) 35,000 90
United Kingdom 27,163 100.6

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

Ukraine Black Markets

Filed under: Europe

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420,000 women from Ukraine trafficked out of country

Filed under: Europe, Humans

A 2005 study on the Human Trafficking Situation in Ukraine stated that ” some 420,000 women were estimated to have been trafficked out of the country in the last few years alone.”

Source: Olga Pyshchulina, ” An Evaluation of Ukrainian Legislation to Counter and Criminalize Human Trafficking,” Human Traffic and Transnational Crime: Eurasian and American Perspectives, edited by Sally Stoecker and Louise Shelley, (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), available at http://policy-traccc.gmu.edu/publications/publications.shtml

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