https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/the-cocaine-market.html
The cocaine market presents a clear threat at global level. The current situation is marked by well-defined locations of production.Read more
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/world/americas/cocaine-drug-market.html
Jun 27, 2025 — An estimated 25 million people used cocaine worldwide in 2023 — up from 17 million a decade earlier. Production jumped by 34 percent from 2022.Read more
https://www.statista.com/chart/31551/coca-leaf-producing-countries-worldwide-and-cocaine-users-by-region/?srsltid=AfmBOoqI1GQWYpSQ6IowqQsBTmfonWmiGI1YG1uFHdhfrZAXAyhgWTI4
Dec 12, 2025 — Although cocaine is consumed in every part of the world, its base, the coca plant, is mainly cultivated in three Latin American countries: Peru, Bolivia and ...Re
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine_boom
The cocaine boom was a stark increase in the illegal production and trade of the drug cocaine that first began in the mid to late 1970s before then peaking ...Read more
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/global-cocaine-boom-keeps-setting-new-records-un-report-says-2025-06-26/
Jun 25, 2025 — "North America, Western and Central Europe and South America continue to constitute the largest markets for cocaine, on the basis of the number ...Read more
https://www.euda.europa.eu/publications/eu-drug-markets/cocaine_en
May 6, 2022 — A demand-based estimate of the European cocaine retail market places its value at EUR 10.5 billion in 2020. This represents about a third of the ...Read more
https://globalinitiative.net/analysis/evaluating-cocaine-market-interventions-how-external-shocks-and-disruption-of-criminal-networks-impact-the-cocaine-trade-and-social-outcomes/
Feb 25, 2025 — This report looks to evaluate the effects of drug market enforcement, and broader external disruptions, through case studies.Read more
https://insightcrime.org/news/gamechangers-2024-global-cocaine-networks-and-trump/
Jan 6, 2025 — With increasing taxes on alcohol across much of Europe, cocaine has now reached a more mainstream market, widening its availability and appeal.Read more
https://news.un.org/en/interview/2024/06/1151426
Jun 26, 2024 — Lower costs of cocaine production have led to falling street prices and increased use of the controlled drug, says a flagship report from ...
https://www.rfi.fr/en/international/20250915-inside-the-cocaine-boom-fuelling-europe-s-most-lucrative-drug-market
Sep 15, 2025 — Record production in South America is fuelling a surge in shipments to Europe, now the most lucrative market for the drug. RFI maps the new ...Read more
https://jied.lse.ac.uk/articles/10.31389/jied.156
by A Scheibe · 2024 · Cited by 5 — The median cost of a gram of cocaine was taken as $65. For heroin, all people included in the population size estimate were assumed to use 1
https://www.rosalux.org.ec/en/the-big-bubble-cocaine-market-in-europe/
Feb 14, 2025 — The highest prevalence is found in the Netherlands, Spain and Ireland, with between two and three percent of the general population reporting ...Read more
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250626-global-cocaine-market-hit-new-record-highs-unodc
Jun 26, 2025 — Cocaine production, seizures and use all hit record highs in 2023, the UN drug agency said on Thursday, with the illicit drug's market the world's fastest- ...Rea
https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/WDR_2025/WDR25_B1_Key_findings.pdf
Jun 13, 2025 — The global cocaine market continues to break its own records. Most indicators – those for production, seizures and use, and related treatment ...Read more
https://www.occrp.org/en/feature/faq-why-are-some-european-drug-gangs-burying-cocaine-instead-of-selling-it
Nov 4, 2025 — Wholesale prices are in the gutter across much of Europe, forcing drug smugglers to try to manipulate the market. OCCRP explains the factors ...
https://www.statista.com/chart/18527/cocaine-retail-steet-prices-in-selected-countries/?srsltid=AfmBOopYAZGQj_sa8YUUUXkUW1-F6_lKVl-C6s5Cxu-3_1RltvlbnLKa
Jun 27, 2023 — In 2021, the price of cocaine was set at an average $81 per gram, an increase of $14 compared to the previous year.Read more
https://www.technavio.com/report/legal-cocaine-market-industry-analysis
Legal cocaine market size is forecast to grow by 2.47 thousand oz during 2021-2025 at a CAGR of 4% with surgical segment having largest market share.
https://www.rand.org/topics/cocaine.html
Spending on cannabis, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine by Americans reached nearly $150 billion in 2016, with a large proportion of spending coming from the ...Read more