As in previous reports the 2021 World Drug Report (WDR) aims to improve the understanding of the world’s drug problem and to contribute towards fostering greater international cooperation for countering its impact on health governance and security. Also to the extent possible the WDR contributes to the monitoring and reporting of SDGs. This edition includes an updated overview of recent trends on production trafficking and consumption for non-medical purposes of key controlled substances. It further maintains a global overview of the baseline data and estimates on drug demand and supply and provides an analysis of the market for the different drugs.

The 2019 World Drug Report will include an updated overview of recent trends on production trafficking and consumption of key illicit drugs. The Report contains a global overview of the baseline data and estimates on drug demand and supply and provides the reference point for information on the drug situation worldwide.

The 2017 WDR includes an updated overview of recent trends on production trafficking and consumption of key illicit drugs as well as highlighting a thematic area of concern. The Report maintains a global overview of the baseline data and estimates on drug demand and supply. This part is descriptive and less analytical to fulfil one of the main functions of the report which is to provide the reference point of information on the drug situation worldwide. Other parts are more analytical and look in depth at few specific topics. Issues highlighted in analysing new trends were selected on the basis of available research findings discussed within RAB and other internal and external stakeholders including the members of the WDR Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC). The thematic focus of the 2017 Report are on the links between drugs terrorism corruption transnational organized crime and illicit financial flows and are spread out through a set of five (5) booklets.

Many illicit drug markets have reached global dimensions and require control strategies on a comparable scale. In that context there is a need to better understand these transnational markets and the manner in which they operate. The annual Report produced by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime is a contribution towards that objective. It provides an overview of the illicit drug situation worldwide and regionally analytical discussions of the key transnational drug markets and statistical trends for all major drug categories.

The World Drug Report aims to enhance Member States’ understanding of global illicit drug trends and to sensitize all Governments about the need for more systematic collection and reporting of data related to illicit drugs. UNODC relies on Member States to provide data primarily through the annual reports questionnaire (ARQ). This year out of some 200 distributed questionnaires UNODC received 118 replies to the drug abuse section and 116 replies to the illicit supply of drugs section. In general the ability of Member States to provide information on illicit drug supply is significantly better than their ability to provide demand-related data. Despite commendable progress for example in the area of prevalence estimates far more remains to be done to provide a solid reliable basis for trend and policy analysis.

This report offers one of the most comprehensive insights into global trends in international culture production seizure and price of illicit drugs. It examines trends in the world’s four major markets: opium and heroin coca and cocaine cannabis and amphetamine-type stimulants. This edition provides an in-depth examination of the link between transnational organized crime and drug trafficking. A detailed statistical appendix on production prices and consumption completes this book which gives the reader a comprehensive picture of the world’s drug problem.

The World Drug Report 2005 provides one of the most comprehensive overviews of illicit drug trends at the international level. In addition this year it presents the work of UNODC in two new areas of research: an estimate of the financial value of the world drug market and the preliminary steps towards the creation of an illicit drug index. The analysis of trends some going back 10 years or more is presented in Volume 1. Detailed statistics are presented in Volume 2. Taken together these volumes provide the most up to date view of today’s illicit drug situation.

The illicit drug trade touches millions of lives in both developed and developing countries. Economic reliance on the drug trade and drug addiction leaves many individuals open to exploitation by criminals and criminal organizations; threatening the health of men women and children the rule of law and ultimately the vitality and strength of all our communities. This Report issued by the United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention describes and explains the extent and development of this complex problem-and the important progress that has been made in recent years towards its amelioration. Illustrated with numerous maps graphs charts and tables the World Drug Report 2000 provides the reader with a unique insight into the realities of the international drug problem and reveals the most complete picture of the extent of the problem.