Kidnap and Ransom Market Value: $500 Million
The Foreign Policy Centre, a think-tank located in the Untied Kingdom, estimated in 2001 that “kidnappers globally take home well over $500 million each year - and rising.”
Source: Rachel Briggs, “The Kidnapping Business,” The Foreign Policy Centre, 2001, pg.1,
(accessed: February 19, 2007).
International Adoptions Market Value: $1.3 Billion
The 2005 EU Organized Crime Report stated that an estimated 1 million children are involved in illegal adoptions. The market value of these adoptions are estimated to be worth EUR 1 billion ($1.3 Billion) a year.
Source: EUROPOL, “2005 EU Organized Crime Report”, October 25, 2005, pg.16, (accessed: March 25, 2007).
Human Smuggling Market Value: $10 Billion
The Human Smuggling market is estimated to be $10 billion.
Source: Julie Watson, AP, “Coyotes brazenly ply their trade,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, April 24, 2006.
Human Trafficking Market Value: $32 Billion
$10 billion is generated based on the initial sale of a person.
If the profits from the activities that is produced by the person who is trafficked is included, then the International Labour Organization (ILO) states that the market value of human trafficking stands at $32 billion, leading to a profit of $13,000 per trafficked person.
Source: [...]
One to Two percent of all migrants from Moldova may be trafficked
According to an article in The New Yorker, “one to two percent of all Moldovan migrants may find themselves trafficked at some point.”
Source: William Finnegan, “The Countertraffickers,” New Yorker, May 5, 2008.
10,000 people in United States working under forced labor conditions
According to a study by Free the Slaves and the Human Rights Center at the University of California Berkeley, an estimated 10,000 people are estimated to be working in forced labor conditions in the United States as a result of Human Trafficking.
Source: Free the Slaves and the Human Rights Center at the University of California, [...]
18,000 to 20,000 human trafficking victims in the United States
United States Department of State, ” 2003 Trafficking in Persons Report,”.
4,000 women trafficked into United Kingdom
As of 2003, an estimated 4,000 women are believed to have been trafficked into the United Kingdom to work in the prostitution industry.
Source: “2012 Games sex trafficking fears,” BBC News, March 23, 2007.
420,000 women from Ukraine trafficked out of country
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, [...]
Prostitution industry in Switzerland worth $2.65 billion
Source: “Swiss sex industry is thriving,” swissinfo, June 3, 2006.
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