More than 3,600 Buddhist antiques were smuggled out of India in 2006.
Author: havocscope
Number of Antiques From China Entering the Art Market Each Year
Between 5,000 to 12,000 smuggled objects from China reach the international art market each year.
Recovery Rate of Stolen Artwork
The recovery rate of stolen art is 10 percent. See more data on the art theft market in our database.
Number of People Selling Illegal Arms in 2006
An estimated 2 million people were working in the arms trafficking industry in 2006.
Global small arms circulation
In 2004, an estimated 639 million small arms were circulating around the world. Source: Rachel Stohl, ” The Tangled Web of Illicit Arms Trafficking,” Center for American Progress, October 14, 2004, (accessed: November 15, 2006).
AK-47s in circulation worldwide
There are an estimated 70 to 100 million AK-47s in circulation worldwide.
AK-47 price in the Niger Delta
Due to an increase in supply, the price of an AK-47 dropped from $250 to $75 in the Niger Delta over an 18 month period.
Number of guns stolen or lost eacy year
Worldwide, an estimated one million small arms are either lost or stolen each year and often end up for sale in the black market.
Half a million weapons lost from small-scale burglary in US
Source: Rachel Stohl, “The Tangled Web of Illicit Arms Trafficking,” Center for American Progress, October 14, 2004, (accessed: November 15, 2006).
60 percent of illegal small arms started out as legal transfers
Source: Larry Kahaner, AK-47: The Weapon That Changed The Face Of War, (New Jersey: John Wiley and Sons, 2007), pg. 177.