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Fig. 28 Global quantities of amphetamine seized and reported trends in amphetamine trafficking,
1998–2018
Seizures (kg equivalents)
80,000
70,000
60,000
50,000
40,000
30,000
20,000
10,000
0
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
160
150
140
130
120
110
100
90
80
Trafficking trend index (2010=100)
Western and Central Europe
Northern America
Near and Middle East/ South-West Asia
Africa
Projected totalsa
Other, Europe
Other, Americas
Other, Asia
Oceania
Amphetamine trafficking trends index b
Source: UNODC, responses to the annual report questionnaire.
a Projected totals: totals assuming no change in the quantities of amphetamine seized among countries not reporting to UNODC in 2017
and 2018.
b The trafficking trends index is based on qualitative information on trends in amphetamine trafficking reported by Member States. The
trend line is computed on the basis of the number of countries reporting increases minus the number of countries reporting decreases (2
points for “strong increase”, 1 point for “some increase”, 0 points for “stable”, -1 point for “some decline”, -2 points for “strong decline”).
trafficking trends point to an overall expansion of
amphetamine trafficking.
Most amphetamine trafficking remains
concentrated in the Near and Middle
East and in Europe
Although data for 2018 were unavailable for key
countries in the Near and Middle East, more than
half (54 per cent) of the global quantity of amphetamine
seized in the period 2014–2018 was reported
in the Near and Middle East/South-West Asia. Of
the rest, some 24 per cent was seized in Europe
(including 14 per cent in Western and Central
Europe), 13 per cent in the Americas (including 7
per cent in North America), 6 per cent in Africa
(mostly in North Africa) and 1 per cent in Oceania
(mostly in Australia). The regional totals for Europe
and the Near and Middle East/South-West Asia
show larger seizures of amphetamine than of methamphetamine
over the period 2014–2018,
suggesting that the availability of amphetamine may
be still greater than of methamphetamine in those
regions. 172, 173
The total quantity of all amphetamines seized in
Europe declined slightly in 2018, mainly due to the
decrease in the quantity of methamphetamine
seized, but still showed a marked increase over the
period 2014–2018. Those reported seizure amounts
are in line with the reported statistics on the quantity
of amphetamines consumed in Europe in 2018
based on wastewater analysis, which indicated a
decline in methamphetamine consumption in parallel
with an increase in amphetamine consumption,
before both amphetamine and methamphetamine
consumption increased markedly in 2019. 174
172 E/INCB/2018/1.
173 EMCDDA, European Drug Report 2018: Trends and Developments
(Luxembourg, Publications Office of the European
Union, 2018).
174 UNODC calculations based on wastewater data provided by
Sewage analysis CORe group Europe (SCORE).
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