The Numbers: Human Trafficking, Arms Deals, Sex, Drugs & Art...

HUMAN TRAFFICKING:

Total value of the global slave trade:

$31 billion

Number of people enslaved today:

27 million

Price traffickers receive for a trafficked woman in Turkey:

$2,500

Price of an hour with a woman from the Emporer's Club V. I. P., the online prostitution ring frequented by former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer:

$5,500

DRUGS:

Price of one kilogram of cocaine in Colombia, South America:

$1,500

Price of one kilogram of cocaine in Miami:

$30,000

Chances that a U.S. one-dollar bill contains traces of cocaine:

4 in 5

Percent of total world trade accounted for by the illegal drug industry:

8

Ratio of opium production in Afghanistan from 2005 to 2007:

2:1

Percent of worldwide heroin production accounted for by Afghanistan:

92

ARMS:

Barter rate for an AK-47 in Kenya in 1986:

10 cows

Barter rate for an AK-47 in Kenya in 2001:

2 cows

Total value of illegal small arms and light weapons trade:

$1 billion

Percent of global weapons sales accounted for by the U.S.:

36

Ratio of guns to people on the planet:

1:10

Ratio of guns to people in the U.S.

9:10

ART:

Reward for stolen painting by Vermeer:

$5 million

Total value of the black market in art:

$6 billion

Number of pieces of art stolen in the U.S. in 2006:

14, 981

Number of pieces of art stolen in the U.S in 2007:

16, 117

-Lapham's Quarterly, ("Crimes & Punishments" Vol. II, Number 2, Spring 2009. Image: Screenshot - " Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne," starring MariaCasares, directed by Robert Bresson, 1945).