India Black Market: $6.821 Billion

70 to 80 Asian elephants smuggled out of India every year

According to Reuters, “About 70 to 80 of Assam’s 5,000 wild elephants are smuggled out of the northeastern state every year, conservationists say, despite India’s ban on the trapping of wild elephants in 1986.”
Source: Biswajyoti Das, Reuters, “Elephant Smuggling rampant in India’s Assam,” Alertnet.org, June 15, 2007.

Bollywood loses $1 billion to movie piracy in US

Source: “Desi pirates steal a billion from Bollywood,” Economic Times, May 4, 2008.

7,000 Nepalese women trafficking to brothels in India each year

Source: “Women trafficking still on the rise,” eKantipur.com, November 15, 2007.

12,000 Nepalese children trafficked for sex each year

According to a fact sheet by UNICEF, ”an estimated 12,000 Nepalese children, mainly girls, are trafficked for commercial sexual exploitation each year within Nepal or to brothels in India and other countries.”
Source: UNICEF, “Fact Sheets: Commercial Sexual Exploitation,” Child Protection Information Sheet, May 2006.

Buffaloes in India cost $350; children cost $45

According to Reuters in 2007, “traffickers are selling children in India for amounts that are often lower than the cost of animals and most of them end up working as laboreres or commercial sex workers.”
The article stated that buffaloes may cost up to $350, while child who are trafficked are sold between $12 and $45.
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India has world’s largest human trafficking problem: US State Department

The Associated Press reported in July 2007 that “a U.S. State Department report released last month found that India has the world’s largest human trafficking problem.”
Source: Associated Press, “Study: Sex trafficking spreading HIV in South Asia,” International Herald Tribune, July 31, 2007.