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2.3% highest 10%: 30.8% (1992) Yugoslavia: lowest 10%: NA% highest 10%: NA% Zambia: lowest 10%: 1.6% highest 10%: 39.2% (1995) Zimbabwe: lowest 10%: 1.8% highest 10%: 46.9% (1990) Taiwan: lowest 10%: NA% highest 10%: NA% ====================================================================== @Illicit drugs Afghanistan: world's largest illicit opium producer, surpassing Burma (potential production in 1999 - 1,670 metric tons; cultivation in 1999 - 51,500 hectares, a 23% increase over 1998); a major source of hashish; increasing number of heroin-processing laboratories being set up in the country; major political factions in the country profit from drug trade Albania: increasingly active transshipment point for Southwest Asian opiates, hashish, and cannabis transiting the Balkan route and - to a far lesser extent - cocaine from South America destined for Western Europe; limited opium and cannabis production; ethnic Albanian narcotrafficking organizations active and rapidly expanding in Europe Angola: increasingly used as a transshipment point for cocaine and heroin destined for Western Europe and other African states Anguilla: transshipment point for South American narcotics destined for the US and Europe Antigua and Barbuda: considered a minor transshipment point for narcotics bound for the US and Europe; more significant as a drug-money-laundering center Argentina: use as a transshipment country for cocaine headed for Europe and the US; increasing use as a money-laundering center; domestic consumption of drugs in urban centers is increasing Armenia: illicit cultivator of cannabis mostly for domestic consumption; increasingly used as a transshipment point for illicit drugs - mostly opium and hashish - to Western Europe and the US via Iran, Central Asia, and Russia Aruba: drug-money-laundering center and transit point for narcotics bound for the US and Europe Australia: Tasmania is one of the world's major suppliers of licit opiate products; government maintains strict controls over areas of opium poppy cultivation and output of poppy straw concentrate Austria: transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin and South American cocaine destined for Western Europe Azerbaijan: limited illicit cultivation of cannabis and opium poppy, mostly for CIS consumption;
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