The Global Organized Crime Index 2021

IASOC - GI-TOC il 29 Settembre 2021. Brevi, Criminalità, Droga, Informazione, Internazionale, Mafie

The Global Organized Crime Index is an innovative tool designed to assess levels of organized crime and resilience to organized-criminal activity in 193 countries.

The Index is the result of a two-year endeavour to evaluate levels of crime and resilience in all 193 UN member states. Through this data, it is hoped that the Index will help inform a truly global response to the pervasive threat of transnational organized crime.

Organized crime is a scourge that afflicts countries in every corner of the globe, from tiny island states to large economic superpowers, and is an underlying driver of many major geopolitical challenges including conflict, political instability and forced migration.

Because of its clandestine nature, however, often little is known about how organized crime operates in each country. To address this knowledge gap, the GI-TOC has developed the Global Organized Crime Index, a unique, data-driven analytical tool that evaluates 193 UN member states according to two metrics: according to their criminality on a score from 1 to 10 (lowest to highest organized crime levels), which in turn is based on their criminal markets score and criminal actors score; and according to their resilience to organized crime, from 1 to 10 (lowest to highest resilience levels).

The results of the first edition of the Global Organized Crime Index, outlined in the flagship report and the interactive Index website (https://ocindex.net/), paint a worrying picture of the reach, scale and impact of organized crime in 2020.

IASOC – GI-TOC Team

Global OC Index launch

On 28 September 2021, the GI-TOC launched the 2021 Global Organized Crime Index. This project draws upon a two-year effort to develop the tool, involving over 350 experts worldwide, including the GI-TOC’s regional observatories, members of the GI Network of Experts and many other independent journalists, academics, researchers and members of civil society.

The Global Organized Crime Index is the result of a two-year endeavour to evaluate levels of crime and resilience in all 193 UN member states. Through this data, it is hoped that the Index will help inform a truly global response to the pervasive threat of transnational organized crime.