IAA - International Authentication Association

Please find below links to websites that provide current statistics on counterfeiting:

Havocscope – on-line database of black market activities

The European Commission – Customs detection data

World Health Organisation Statistics

Department for Homeland Security (CBP) – USA

WIPO

Below is a selection of statistics for counterfeiting and its impact - both general and for specific industries or countries.

in 1982 estimated at $5.5 billion (International Chamber of Commerce)
current estimates vary from $200 billion per annum (OECD) to $600 billion (Progressive Policy Institute)
US businesses lose $200-$250 billion per annum to counterfeiting
100,000 jobs in the EU lost to counterfeiting (OECD, EC) and 750,000 in the US

Automotive/Airline Parts

losses to the auto industry – $3 billion in the US, over $12 billion worldwide (US Dept of Commerce)
20% of auto parts in Middle East are fake, 37% in India
2% of 26 million airline parts installed each year are fake (Federal Aviation Authority)
1973-1996 – 174 crashes and accidents attributed to installation of illegal parts in aircraft (Federal Aviation Authority)
36,000 fatalities and 1.5 million accidents on US roads could be caused by defective automotive parts (Army AL&T 2007)

Pharmaceuticals

10% of drugs sold in the US are fakes (FDA)
up to 25% of the medicines consumed in some developing countries are counterfeit or substandard (WHO)
annual earnings from the sales of counterfeit and substandard medicines - over $32 billion globally (WHO)
"The effects of counterfeit medicines are worse than HIV/AIDS, malaria and typhoid combined” (Dora Akunyili, NAFDAC, 2003)

Tobacco

diversion from low-excise tax territories to high-excise tax territories (California estimated to lose over $300 million in taxes each year)
5% of cigarettes sold in the UK are counterfeit

Software

35% of software installed on PCs in 2005 was illegal – representing a loss of $34 billion (Business Software Alliance)

Printer Consumables

annual losses to US manufacturers of cartridges, toners etc - $1 billion (Imaging Supplies Coalition)

Music

trade in pirate discs worth $4.5 billion in 2005. 1 in 3 CDs are pirated (International Federation of Phonographic Industries)

Movies

piracy cost the worldwide motion picture industry $18.2 billion in 2005 (Motion Picture Association)

$100 billion lost annually to counterfeiting (Alliance for Gray Market and Counterfeit Abatement)