World Drug Report 2005 - United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

1. Trends Opium / Heroin market
Fig. 4: Opium poppy cultivation
Rest of the
<strong>World</strong>
(26,400 ha)
2003
Rest of the
<strong>World</strong>
(20,800 ha)
2004*
16%
37%
47%
Myanmar
(44,200 ha)
23%
11%
66%
Myanmar
(62,200 ha)
*Data for the 'rest of the world' is still tentative.
Afghanistan
(80,000 ha)
Afghanistan
(131,000 ha)
Fig. 5: Opium Yields in Afghanistan and Myanmar (kg/ha)
Afghanistan
Myanmar
50 40
24
46 45
32
10 10
10
10
13
8
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
Differences in opium yield between Afghanistan and Myanmar are due to differences in opium
poppy varieties and growing conditions. Variations of yields from year to year in the same country
are mostly caused by changes in weather conditions and/or, as in the case of Afghanistan in 2001,
by a shift in the relative distribution of cultivation from irrigated to rain-fed land.
Fig. 6: Opium production
2003
2004*
Afghanistan
(3,600 mt)
Afghanistan
(4200 mt)
76%
86%
Rest of the
<strong>World</strong>
(355 mt)
7%
17%
Myanmar
(810 mt)
Rest of the
<strong>World</strong>
(280 mt)
6%
8%
Myanmar
(370 mt)
*Data for the 'rest of the world' is still tentative.
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