Facts, statistics and other information about the black market economy of Italy. Crime, trafficking and smuggling facts about Italy is collected from government reports, news articles and other public sources. The original source about the Italy economy is available by clicking on the data.
Illegal Economy of Italy
- Amount of Counterfeit Goods Sold in Italy $9.3 Billion
- Art Theft in Italy 20,000 cases reported per year
- Book Publishing Losses Due to Piracy $20 Million
- Bulk Cash Smuggling in Italy $165 Million seized in 2012
- Camorra Mafia Revenue from Counterfeit Goods $25 Billion per year
- Cancer Rate in Naples Rose nearly 50% due to toxic waste dumping
- Chinese Organized Crime in Italy $3.3 Billion laundered between 2006-2010
- Cocaine Price in Italy $91.6 per gram
- Cocaine Use in Milan 0.5 to 1 grams used per 1,000 citizens
- Counterfeit “Made in Italy” Foods 28,000 tons in 2012
- Counterfeit Clothes Sold in Italy $4.6 Billion
- Counterfeit Euros in the EU Half produced in Italy
- Counterfeit Food Sales in Italy $1.4 Billion in 2010
- Drug Addiction Treatment Spending in Italy $14.5 Billion per year
- Drug Sales by the Italian Mafia $83 Billion in 2008
- Ecstasy Price in Italy $22.0 per pill
- Environmental Crimes Profit by Mafia $19.6 Billion
- Fake Champagne Bottles 60,000 seized in single raid
- Fake Italian Olive Oil 80% made with cheaper oils
- Food Production as portion of Mafia racketeering profits 5.6%
- Football Match Fixing in Italy $516,000 per game
- Foreign Women Murders 25% of all murders in 2004 were foreign women
- Gold Smuggling Smuggling ring made $207 Million in profits
- Gun Sales by Mafia in Italy $8 Billion
- Heroin Price in Italy $80.6 per gram
- Human Smuggling from China into Italy $15,000 per migrant
- Human Trafficking in Italy 2,400 in 2010
- Human Trafficking of Nigerian Women into Italy 8,000 to 10,000 per year
- Human Trafficking Profits in Italy $850 Million
- Illegally Caught Tuna by Italian Fishing Boats 130 tonnes in 2013
- Italian Mafia Members in Germany 65 active members in Bavaria
- Italian Mafia Revenue $204 Billion
- Mafia Control of Agriculture and Food Production $16 Billion
- Mafia Drug Trafficking ‘Ndragheta controls 80% of Europe’s cocaine imports
- Mafia Influence in Italy 13 Million people live in areas of Mafia control
- Mafia Loan Sharks Revenue in Italy $17 Billion per year
- Mafia Murders by Syndicates 3,374 murders between 1992-2010
- Mafia Profits from Farming $19.2 Billion
- Mafia Syndicate ‘Ndragheta Annual Revenue $73 Billion in 2013
- Marijuana Price in Italy $11.3 per gram
- Match Fixing Football Games in Italy $2.75 Billion between 2005-2011
- Money Laundering in Italy $1 Trillion flagged between 2002-2012
- Movie Piracy Losses in Italy $161 Million
- Music Piracy Losses in Italy $45 Million
- Pirated Moves and Music Viewing 37% view pirated content
- Pirated Software in Italy $1.94 Billion in 2011
- Pirated Video Games Losses in Italy $817 Million
- Price of a Mafia Kneecap $3,700
- Sex Trade Revenue in Italy $600 Million
- Tax Evasion in Italy Nearly 12,000 evaded $74 Billion in 2012
- Tax Evasion in Italy on Internet Sales $4.2 Billion per year
- Trash Dumping by Mafia Over 10 Million tons between 1990-2012
- Wildlife Seizures in Italy 30,000 wildlife products seized in 1 month
- Witness Protection Program in Italy Nearly 4,700 witnesses in 2010