COUNTERFEIT STATISTICS

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

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)

• 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)

• 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

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

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

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

• 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)