Contents

1. Foreword
2. Introduction: Organized crime in a fractured world
3. 01The global illicit economy in 2022: A year of division +
   1. Key findings
4. 02About the Index +
   1. Index composition
   2. Methodology
   3. How to read the representations of this report
5. 03Global overview and results +
   1. Global context
   2. Global criminal markets
   3. Global criminal actors
   4. Global resilience
6. 04Continental overviews and results +
   1. Asia
   2. Africa
   3. Americas
   4. Europe
   5. Oceania
7. 05Vulnerability classifications +
   1. Low criminality–high resilience
   2. Low criminality–low resilience
   3. High criminality–low resilience
   4. High criminality–high resilience
8. 06Criminal markets, actors and resilience: Understanding the dynamics +
   1. Crime convergence
   2. Who is doing what?
   3. Resilience
9. 07Changing organized crime dynamics and comparing datasets +
   1. Economic, socio-economic and geographical vulnerabilities
   2. Political and socio-political vulnerabilities
10. 08Conclusions
11. Appendix 1: An interactive tool +
    1. The Global Organized Crime Index website
    2. New features: Improved user experience
12. Appendix 2: Interpreting results +
    1. Diversity in the Index components
    2. Limitations
    3. Broader scope: Additional Index indicators
13. Appendix 3: Definitions +
    1. Defining organized crime
    2. Criminal market definitions
    3. Criminal actor definitions
    4. Resilience indicator definitions
14. Appendix 4: Ranking tables +
    1. Criminality scores
    2. Criminal market scores
    3. Criminal actor scores
    4. Resilience scores