REPORTE MUNDIAL DE DROGAS - LIBRO NRO 3: SUMINISTRO DE DROGAS

WORLD DRUG REPORT 2020
DRUG SUPPLY
Cocaine interception rate in Australia
Despite the recent decline in cocaine seizures, available
data suggest that the interception rate of cocaine shipments
is still very high in Australia by international
standards.
With reported amounts of 4.1 tons consumed in the
fiscal year 2017/18 and 4.6 tons in 2018/19 based on
the analysis of wastewater in Australia, a it can be
assumed that in 2018 approximately 4.4 tons of cocaine
may have been consumed. The quantity of cocaine
seized, not adjusted for purity, amounted to 1.9 tons in
2018. b This would have been equivalent to 1.4 tons of
pure cocaine, based on an average purity of 73 per cent
at the wholesale level across jurisdictions in Australia. c
This suggests that 5.8 tons (4.4 tons plus 1.4 tons) of
cocaine may have entered Australia, 1.4 tons, or 24 per
cent, of which were intercepted by the authorities in
2018.
a Ibid.
b UNODC, response to the annual report questionnaire.
c Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, Illicit Drug Data
Report 2017–18.
via Chile or Brazil to Australia. Cocaine originating
in Colombia accounted for more than 84 per cent
of the quantity of cocaine seized in the first two
quarters of 2018.
Fig. 15 Distribution of the geographical origin
of cocaine border seizures in Australia,
2009–June 2018
100%
80%
Percentage
60%
40%
20%
0%
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
Mixed or unclassified
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
Peru
Colombia
2017
Jan–Jun 2018
Source: Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, Illicit Drug
Data Report 2017–18 (Canberra, July 2019).
Note: Distribution of the geographical origin of coca leaf used to
produce cocaine as a proportion of total bulk weight of analysed
border seizures.
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