Eduardo Valencia
Infographic | 2025
This is one of four visual explorations of data from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). For their landing page, click here.
Coca bush cultivation is the starting point of the cocaine supply chain. This visualization uses annual estimates from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to examine cultivation trends in the three main producing countries: Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia. Together, these countries account for nearly all global coca production (DEA Museum).
Source: Individual country reports for the UNODC Global Illicit Crop Monitoring Programme (ICMP)
Bibliography:
Drug Enforcement Administration Museum. "Coca." Cannabis, Coca, and Poppy: Nature’s Addictive Plants, U.S. Department of Justice, https://museum.dea.gov/exhibits/online-exhibits/cannabis-coca-and-poppy-natures-addictive-plants/coca. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.
UNODC. "UNODC and Illicit Crop Monitoring." https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/crop-monitoring/. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.