Second Largest Opium Producer in 2005 was Myanmar

Burma/Myanmar is the world’s second largest producer of illicit opium after Afghanistan, accounting for more than 90 percent of heroin in Southeast Asia.

(World Crime Statistics by Country.)

Source: United States Department of State, “2006 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report,” Southeast Asia: Burma, March 2006.

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