Total Prostitution Revenue Worldwide: $186 Billion.
Havocscope calculates the world’s prostitution revenue by adding up the estimated market values from countries where prostitution revenue is available. The revenue estimates comes from a wide range of sources, such as public health programs, law enforcement initiatives and other criminal justice programs, as well as media reports.
Sources for the revenue figures and additional information about prostitution is available in our ebook Prostitution: Prices and Statistics of the Global Sex Trade.
- China$73 Billion
- Spain$26.5 Billion
- Japan$24 Billion
- Germany$18 Billion (Legal Industry)
- United States$14.6 Billion
- South Korea$12 Billion
- India$8.4 Billion
- Thailand$6.4 Billion
- Philippines$6 Billion
- Turkey$4 Billion
- Switzerland$3.5 Billion
- Indonesia$2.25 Billion
- Taiwan$1.84 Billion
- Ukraine$1.5 Billion
- Bulgaria$1.3 Billion
- United Kingdom$1 Billion
- Netherlands$800 Million (Legal Industry)
- Italy$600 Million
- Cambodia$511 Million
- Israel$500 Million
- Ireland$326 Million
- Czech Republic$200 Million
- Jamaica$58 Million
- Australia$27 Million
Original sources of these figures and additional prostitution earnings and revenues are available in our prostitution briefing book.
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