7 Biggest Illegal Businesses Across The Globe

3. Human Trafficking
Global Revenue in 2012: $32 Billion
Overall Rank In Revenue: 3

Human trafficking is the trade in humans, most commonly for the purpose of sexual slavery, forced labor or for the extraction of organs or tissues, including surrogacy and ova removal. Trafficking is a profitable industry, in lieu of an estimated $32 billion per year in global trade, evaluated to the anticipated annual $650 billion for all illegal international trade circa 2010.

In case of child trafficking, IOM statistics point out that a major minority (35 percent) of trafficked persons it assisted in 2011 were less than 18 years of age, which is roughly consistent with estimates from previous years.

According to U.S. Department of Justice report in 2009, there were 1,229 alleged human trafficking confrontations in the United States from January 2007- September 2008. Of these, 83 percent were sex trafficking cases.

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