China Human Smuggling market value: $1 to $3 billion per year

Posted on April 26, 2008
Filed Under Asia, humans |

According to author Moises Naim, ” human smuggling out of China alone has been estimated between $1 and $3 billion per year”.

Source: Moises Naim, Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats are hijacking the global economy, (New York: Doubleday, 2005), pg. 88.

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