Human Trafficking

• Total value of the global slave trade: $31 billion
• Number of people enslaved today: 27 million
• Price traffickers pay to purchase a woman in Moldova: $500
• Price traffickers receive for a trafficked woman in Turkey: $2,500
• Price of an hour with a woman from the Emperor’s Club V.I.P., the online prostitution ring frequented by former New York governor Eliot Spitzer: $5,500

Drugs

• Price of one kilogram of cocaine in Colombia: $1,500
• Price of one kilogram of cocaine in Miami: $30,000
• Chances that a U.S. $1 bill contains traces of cocaine: 4 in 5
• Percent of total world trade accounted for by the illegal drug industry: 8
• Ratio of opium production in Afghanistan from 2005 to 2007: 1:2
• Percent of worldwide heroin production accounted for by Afghanistan: 92

Arms

• Barter rate for an AK-47 in Kenya in 1986: 10 cows
• Barter rate in 2001: 2 cows
• Total value of illegal small arms and light weapons trade: $1 billion
• Percent of global weapons sales accounted for by the U.S.: 36
• Ratio of guns to people on planet: 1:10
• Ratio of guns to people in the U.S.: 9:10

Art

• Reward for a stolen painting by Vermeer: $5 million
• Total value of the black market in art: $6 billion
• Number of pieces of art stolen in the U.S. in 2006: 14,981
• Number of pieces of art stolen in the U.S. in 2007: 16,117

Figures from early 2009.