Research publications

UNODC publishes survey reports carried out by UNODC in collaboration with national governments in the field of illicit drug cultivation and production, drug use, victimization and corruption. It also publishes comparative regional and international analysis of data related to crime and drugs together with standards and recommendations in the field of drug and crime statistics.

World Drug Report (all editions)

Statistical publications

September 2024

17/09/2024 - UNODC Drugs Monitoring Platform Brief: Update on patterns and trends in heroin, methamphetamine and opium trafficking before and after the April 2022 Afghanistan Drug Ban

July 2024

22/07/2024 - Drug Trafficking Dynamics across Iraq and the Middle East - Trends and Responses
18/07/2024 - Prison Matters: Global prison population and trends A focus on rehabilitation
17/07/2024 - Global Progress Report on Sustainable Development Goal 16 Indicators

June 2024

28/06/2024 - Impact of Transnational Organized Crime on Stability and Development in the Sahel

May 2024

17/05/2024 - Global analysis on crimes that affect the environment
13/05/2024 - 2024 World Wildlife Crime Report

April 2024

19/04/2024 - Drug Trafficking in the Sahel

March 2024

06/03/2024 - Guidelines for the governance of statistical data in the criminal justice system

January 2024

17/01/2024 - Guidelines for the production of statistical data by the prison system

December 2023

12/12/2023 - Global Study on Homicide 2023
12/12/2023 - Southeast Asia opium survey 2023

November 2023

24/11/2023 - Gold trafficking in the Sahel
22/11/2023 - Gender-related killings of women and girls (femicide/feminicide) - Global estimates of female intimate partner/family-related homicides in 2022
05/11/2023 - Afghanistan opium survey 2023

October 2023

27/10/2023 - Guidelines for the production of statistical data by the prosecution service and the courts
19/10/2023 - International classification standard for administrative data on trafficking in persons
18/10/2023 - Tracking illicit financial flows linked to human trafficking and migrant smuggling

September 2023

21/09/2023 - Global progress report on Sustainable Development Goal 16 indicators: A wake-up call for action on peace, justice and inclusion
12/09/2023 - Colombia - Monitoreo de los territorios con presencia de cultivos de coca 2022
11/09/2023 - Understanding Illegal Methamphetamine Manufacture in Afghanistan
10/09/2023 - UNODC Drugs Monitoring Platform Brief: Update on patterns and trends in heroin and methamphetamine trafficking from 2020 to 2022 for Afghanistan and neighbouring regions
10/09/2023 - Understanding Illegal Methamphetamine Manufacture in Afghanistan

March 2023

23/03/2023 - Smuggling of migrants in the Sahel
16/03/2023 - Global report on cocaine 2023

February 2023

28/02/2023 - Fuel Trafficking in the Sahel
20/02/2023 - Meurtres de femmes et de filles liés au genre (fémicides/féminicides)
20/02/2023 - Asesinatos de mujeres y niñas por razones de género (femicidio/feminicidio)
14/02/2023 - Firearms trafficking in the Sahel

January 2023

31/01/2023 - TRAFFICKING IN MEDICAL PRODUCTS IN THE SAHEL
26/01/2023 - Myanmar Opium Survey 2022
24/01/2023 - Global Report on Tra̪fficking in Persons 2022

December 2022

08/12/2022 - Mexico - Opium Survey 2019-2020 - Spanish with a summary in English

November 2022

29/11/2022 - Bolivia - Monitoreo de cultivos de coca 2021
29/11/2022 - Bolivia Coca Survey 2021 - Fact Sheet and Executive Summary
28/11/2022 - Guidelines for the production of statistical data by the police
23/11/2022 - Gender-related killings of women and girls (femicide/feminicide)
14/11/2022 - Prison research: a pilot study on the causes of recidivism in Albania, Czechia and Thailand
10/11/2022 - ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE AND CLIMATE CHANGE - Joining the dots

October 2022

20/10/2022 - Colombia Coca Survey 2021 - Executive Summary (in English)
20/10/2022 - Colombia - Monitoreo de territorios afectados por cultivos ilícitos 2021
19/10/2022 - False trades: uncovering the scale and scope of trafficking in cultural property

September 2022

26/09/2022 - Monitoreo del ODS 16 - Una perspectiva de genero
26/09/2022 - Data Matters No. 04 - Monitoring SDG 16: A gender perspective
25/09/2022 - Illicit financial flows from trafficking of opiates along the northern route

July 2022

26/07/2022 - Research brief - Does the increase in opium poppy cultivation contribute to food insecurity in Afghanistan?
19/07/2022 - Cocaine Insights 4 - Brazil in the regional and transatlantic cocaine supply chain: The impact of COVID-19

June 2022

16/06/2022 - UNODC Drugs Monitoring Platform Brief: Latest patterns and trends in drug trafficking modi operandi of heroin and methamphetamine originating in Afghanistan

May 2022

31/05/2022 - UNODC Drugs Monitoring Platform Brief: Patterns and trends in trafficking routes of heroin and methamphetamine originating in Afghanistan

April 2022

11/04/2022 - Myanmar Opium Survey 2021
08/04/2022 - Conflict in Ukraine: Key evidence on drug demand and supply

March 2022

24/03/2022 - Conflict in Ukraine: Key evidence on risks of trafficking in persons
18/03/2022 - Nigeria Cannabis Survey 2022
14/03/2022 - Cocaine Insights 3 - Women in the cocaine supply chain

November 2021

25/11/2021 - Killings of women and girls by their intimate partner or other family members - Global estimates 2020
15/11/2021 - Drug situation in Afghanistan 2021 - Latest findings and emerging threats

October 2021

25/10/2021 - Data Matters N0. 2
15/10/2021 - Afghan opiate trafficking through the southern route - 2015 - Russian
07/10/2021 - Cocaine Insights 2 - Cocaine: A spectrum of products

September 2021

30/09/2021 - UNODC Drugs Monitoring Platform Brief: The reach of nationally linked trafficking groups across Afghan opiate trafficking routes
07/09/2021 - Cocaine Insights 1 - The illicit trade of cocaine from Latin America to Europe from oligopolies to free-for-all?

August 2021

31/08/2021 - Bolivia Coca Survey 2020 - Fact Sheet and Executive Summary
31/08/2021 - Bolivia - Monitoreo de cultivos de coca 2020

July 2021

29/07/2021 - Colombia - Monitoreo de territorios afectados por cultivos ilícitos 2020

June 2021

24/06/2021 - Mexico - Opium Survey 2018-2019 - Spanish with a summary in English
09/06/2021 - Colombia Coca Survey 2020 - Fact Sheet (in English) and Executive Summary (in Spanish)

May 2021

03/05/2021 - Afghanistan opium survey 2020 - Cultivation and Production - Executive Summary (Updated)

April 2021

14/04/2021 - AT THE CROSSROADS OF LICIT AND ILLICIT - Tramadol and other pharmaceutical opioids trafficking in West Africa

March 2021

12/03/2021 - UNODC Drugs Monitoring Platform Brief: Possible impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on trafficking in opiates and methamphetamine originating in Afghanistan

February 2021

17/02/2021 - Afghanistan opium survey 2019 - Socio-economic survey report: Drivers, causes and consequences of opium poppy cultivation
12/02/2021 - Myanmar Opium Survey 2020 - Cultivation, Production, and Implications
02/02/2021 - Global Report on Trafficking in Persons

December 2020

14/12/2020 - Measuring Organized Crime in the Western Balkans
10/12/2020 - Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic and related restrictions on homicide and property crime
08/12/2020 - Gender and corruption in Nigeria

November 2020

25/11/2020 - What crime and helpline data say about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on reported violence against women and girls

July 2020

29/07/2020 - Plurinational State of Bolivia - Coca cultivation survey 2019 - Summary and fact sheet
29/07/2020 - Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia - Monitoreo de cultivos de coca 2019
28/07/2020 - Colombia -Monitoreo de territorios afectados por cultivos ilicitos 2019
15/07/2020 - Global Study on Firearms Trafficking 2020
13/07/2020 - The impact of COVID-19 on organized crime
10/07/2020 - Wildlife Crime Report 2020
08/07/2020 - COVID-19-related Trafficking of Medical Products as a Threat to Public Health

June 2020

17/06/2020 - Colombia - Survey of territories affected by illicit crops 2019 - Fact Sheet and Executive Summary (in Spanish)

May 2020

14/05/2020 - How COVID-19 restrictions and the economic consequences are likely to impact migrant smuggling and cross-border trafficking in persons to Europe and North America
07/05/2020 - COVID-19 and the drug supply chain: from production and trafficking to use

March 2020

26/03/2020 - Mexico - Opium Survey 2017-2018 - Spanish with a summary in English

February 2020

04/02/2020 - Myanmar Opium Survey 2019 - Cultivation and Production

November 2019

19/11/2019 - Opium poppy cultivation and sustainable development in Shan State, Myanmar

August 2019

22/08/2019 - Bolivia Informe Monitoreo Coca 2018

July 2019

29/07/2019 - Afghanistan opium survey 2018 - Challenges to sustainable development, peace and security

June 2019

26/06/2019 - Colombia - Monitoreo territorios afectados cultivos ilicitos 2018

January 2019

16/01/2019 - Drug Use Survey Nigeria - 2019
11/01/2019 - Myanmar Opium Survey 2018 - Cultivation and Production
07/01/2019 - Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2018 - booklet 1
06/01/2019 - Global Report on Trafficking in Persons - 2018
06/01/2019 - GLOTiP - Booklet 2 - Conflict
06/01/2019 - West and South Asia
06/01/2019 - Western and Southern Europe
06/01/2019 - Sub-Saharan Africa
06/01/2019 - South America
06/01/2019 - North America
06/01/2019 - North Africa and the Middle East
06/01/2019 - East Asia and the Pacific
06/01/2019 - Eastern Europe and Central Asia
06/01/2019 - Central and South-Eastern Europe
06/01/2019 - Central America and the Caribbean

December 2018

21/12/2018 - Trafficking in persons in the context of armed conflict - 2018
21/12/2018 - Peru - Monitoreo de Cultivos de Coca 2017 - with summary in English

November 2018

29/11/2018 - Mexico - Opium Survey 2015-2016/2016-2017 - Spanish with a summary in English
25/11/2018 - Global Study on Homicide - Gender related killing of women and girls
19/11/2018 - Afghanistan opium survey 2018 - Cultivation and Production

October 2018

24/10/2018 - Manual on Corruption Surveys - Methodological guidelines on the measurement of bribery and other forms of corruption through sample surveys

September 2018

19/09/2018 - Colombia – Survey of territories affected by illicit crops 2017 – Summary and fact sheet

August 2018

22/08/2018 - Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia - Monitoreo de Cultivos de Coca 2017
22/08/2018 - Plurinational State of Bolivia: Coca cultivation survey 2017 – Summary and fact sheet

May 2018

18/05/2018 - Afghanistan opium survey 2017 - Challenges to sustainable development, peace and security

December 2017

06/12/2017 - Myanmar - Opium Survey 2017
05/12/2017 - Peru - Monitoreo de Cultivos de Coca 2016
05/12/2017 - Peru - Coca cultivation survey - Fact sheet, Exexutive summary in English

November 2017

15/11/2017 - Afghanistan opium survey 2017 - Cultivation and Production

October 2017

20/10/2017 - Global Synthetic Drugs Assessment - 2017

July 2017

18/07/2017 - Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia Monitoreo de Cultivos de Coca 2016
18/07/2017 - Colombia - Monitoreo de territorios afectados por cultivos ilícitos 2016
18/07/2017 - Colombia - Survey of territories affected by illicit crops 2016

May 2017

19/05/2017 - Afghanistan opium survey 2016 - Sustainable development in an opium production environment

March 2017

01/03/2017 - Evidence for enhancing resilience to opium poppy cultivation in Shan State, Myanmar

December 2016

24/12/2016 - Afghanistan opium survey 2016 - Cultivation and Production
21/12/2016 - Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2016

October 2016

23/10/2016 - Afghanistan - opium poppy survey - Cultivation and Production 2016

July 2016

13/07/2016 - Perú - Monitoreo de Cultivos de Coca 2015
08/07/2016 - Colombia - Monitoreo de territorios afectados por cultivos ilícitos 2015 - Colombia
05/07/2016 - Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia Monitoreo de Cultivos de Coca 2015

June 2016

22/06/2016 - Mexico - Monitoreo de Cultivos de Amapola 2014-2015
22/06/2016 - Mexico - Monitoring of Opium Poppy Cultivation 2014-2015 (english version)

May 2016

31/05/2016 - Деньги от наркоторговли: доходы от незаконного оборота опиатов на “Балканском маршруте” 2015
24/05/2016 - World wildlife crime report 2016

March 2016

16/03/2016 - The Afghan Opiate Trade and Africa - A Baseline Assessment- 2016
08/03/2016 - The Afghan Opiate Trade and Africa - A Baseline Assessment 2016

December 2015

15/12/2015 - Southeast Asia Opium Survey 2015 - Lao PDR, Myanmar
13/12/2015 - Afghanistan opium survey 2015 - Cultivation and Production

November 2015

26/11/2015 - Drug Money - the illicit proceeds of opiates trafficked on the Balkan route
26/11/2015 - Drug Money: the illicit proceeds of opiates trafficked on the Balkan route - Executive summary

October 2015

14/10/2015 - Afghanistan opium survey 2015 - Executive Summary

July 2015

15/07/2015 - Peru - Informe Monitoreo de Cultivos de Coca 2014 (Summary in English included)
02/07/2015 - Colombia - Coca cultivation survey 2014
02/07/2015 - Colombia - Monitoreo de Cultivos de Coca 2014

June 2015

26/06/2015 - World Drug Report 2015

April 2015

20/04/2015 - Afghanistan opium survey 2014 - Socio-economic analysis

December 2014

08/12/2014 - Southeast Asia Opium Survey 2014 - Lao PDR, Myanmar

November 2014

24/11/2014 - Global report on trafficking in persons 2014
12/11/2014 - Afghanistan opium survey 2014 - Cultivation and production

August 2014

12/08/2014 - Colombia - Coca Cultivation Survey 2013

June 2014

26/06/2014 - Colombia - Monitoreo de Cultivos de Coca 2013
26/06/2014 - World Drug Report 2014
23/06/2014 - Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia - Monitoreo de Cultivos de Coca 2013
11/06/2014 - Perú - Monitoreo de Cultivos de Coca 2013

April 2014

15/04/2014 - South-East Asia - Opium survey 2013 - Lao PDR, Myanmar
10/04/2014 - Global Study on Homicide - 2013

March 2014

27/03/2014 - Impacts of drug use on users and their families in Afghanistan
10/03/2014 - Обзор производства опия в Афганистане в 2013 году - Краткое изложение результатов исследования

December 2013

23/12/2013 - Afghanistan opium survey 2013

November 2013

13/11/2013 - Afghanistan opium survey 2013 - Summary findings

September 2013

24/09/2013 - Perú - Monitoreo de Cultivos de Coca 2012
03/09/2013 - Transnational Organized Crime in Eastern Africa: A Threat Assessment

August 2013

09/08/2013 - Colombia: Coca cultivation survey 2012
09/08/2013 - Colombia: Monitoreo de Cultivos de Coca 2012
06/08/2013 - Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia: Monitoreo de Cultivos de Coca 2012

June 2013

26/06/2013 - World Drug Report 2013

May 2013

05/05/2013 - Afghanistan opium survey 2012

February 2013

25/02/2013 - Transnational Organized Crime in West Africa: A Threat Assessment

December 2012

10/12/2012 - Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2012

November 2012

20/11/2012 - Afghanistan opium survey 2012 - Summary findings

October 2012

31/10/2012 - South-East Asia Opium Survey 2012 - Lao PDR, Myanmar
11/10/2012 - Misuse of Licit Trade for Opiate Trafficking in Western and Central Asia: A Threat Assessment

September 2012

27/09/2012 - Afghanistan cannabis survey 2012 - Cultivation and Production
27/09/2012 - Perú: Monitoreo de Cultivos de Coca, 2011
25/09/2012 - Afghanistan cannabis survey 2011 - Russian
24/09/2012 - Afghanistan cannabis survey 2011 - Cultivation and Production
17/09/2012 - Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia: Monitoreo de Cultivos de Coca 2011
01/09/2012 - Transnational Organized Crime in Central America and the Caribbean: A Threat Assessment
01/09/2012 - Delincuencia Organizada Transnacional en Centroamérica y el Caribe: Una Evaluación de las Amenazas

July 2012

26/07/2012 - Colombia: Coca cultivation survey 2011
25/07/2012 - Colombia: Monitoreo de cultivos de coca 2011
19/07/2012 - Opiate flows through Northern Afghanistan and Central Asia: a threat assessment - Russian

June 2012

26/06/2012 - World Drug Report 2012

February 2012

03/02/2012 - Monitoring the impact of economic crisis on crime

January 2012

12/01/2012 - Afghanistan opium survey 2011 - Russian
12/01/2012 - Afghanistan opium survey 2011

December 2011

21/12/2011 - Criminalité organisée et instabilité en Afrique centrale - Une évaluation des menaces
15/12/2011 - South-East Asia - Opium survey 2011

October 2011

25/10/2011 - Estimating illicit financial flows resulting from drug trafficking and other transnational organized crimes
11/10/2011 - Afghanistan opium survey 2011 - Summary findings
06/10/2011 - 2011 Global Study on Homicide

September 2011

14/09/2011 - Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia: Monitoreo de cultivo de coca 2010

July 2011

01/07/2011 - Peru: Monitoreo de cultivos de coca 2010
01/07/2011 - Colombia: Monitoreo de cultivas de coca 2010

June 2011

28/06/2011 - Afghanistan cannabis survey 2010
23/06/2011 - World Drug Report 2011

May 2011

17/05/2011 - Corruption in the western Balkans: bribery as experienced by the population

January 2011

20/01/2011 - Afghanistan opium survey 2010 - Russian
20/01/2011 - Afghanistan opium survey 2010

December 2010

13/12/2010 - South-East Asia - Opium survey 2010 - Lao PDR, Myanmar

September 2010

30/09/2010 - Afghanistan opium survey 2010 - Summary findings
03/09/2010 - Manual on Victimization Surveys

June 2010

23/06/2010 - World Drug Report 2010
22/06/2010 - Ecuador - Monitoreo de Cultivos de Coca 2009
22/06/2010 - Perú - Monitoreo de Cultivos de Coca 2009
22/06/2010 - Colombia - Monitoreo de Cultivos de Coca 2009
22/06/2010 - Colombia - Coca cultivation survey 2009
21/06/2010 - Drug Use in Afghanistan: 2009 Survey
17/06/2010 - The globalization of crime - A transnational organized crime threat assessment

March 2010

31/03/2010 - Afghanistan cannabis survey 2009 (English)
31/03/2010 - Afghanistan cannabis survey 2009 (Russian)

February 2010

24/02/2010 - Crime and instability: case studies of transnational threats

December 2009

17/12/2009 - Afghanistan opium survey - Dec 2009
14/12/2009 - Opium poppy cultivation in South-East Asia - Dec 2009

October 2009

21/10/2009 - ADDICTION CRIME AND INSURGENCY The transnational threat of Afghan opium

September 2009

02/09/2009 - Afghanistan opium survey - summary findings - Sept 2009

July 2009

07/07/2009 - Transnational Trafficking and the Rule of Law in West Africa: A Threat Assessment

June 2009

24/06/2009 - World Drug Report 2009
19/06/2009 - Bolivia coca cultivation survey - June 2009

March 2009

05/03/2009 - World Drug Report 2008 now available in Russian

February 2009

26/02/2009 - 100 Years of Drug Control

November 2008

27/11/2008 - Afghanistan opium survey - Nov 2008

October 2008

28/10/2008 - Tráfico de Droga como uma Ameaça á Segurança na África Ocidental
28/10/2008 - Le Trafic de Drogue comme Menace á la Sécurité en Afrique de l´Ouest
28/10/2008 - Drug Trafficking as a Security Threat in West Africa

June 2008

26/06/2008 - 2008 World Drug Report

October 2007

16/10/2007 - Afghanistan opium survey - Oct 2007

June 2007

26/06/2007 - 2007 World Drug Report

February 2006

09/02/2006 - Afghanistan - Opium Rapid Assessment Survey 2006

November 2005

01/11/2005 - Afghanistan opium survey 2005

October 2005

28/10/2005 - Myanmar opium survey - November 2005

July 2005

04/07/2005 - Maroc enquête sur le cannabis - may 2004

June 2005

15/06/2005 - Crime and Development in Africa

October 2003

01/10/2003 - Afghanistan opium survey 2003