Crime and criminal justice statistics

Piracy and intellectual property offences

In 2003 Australia ranked 16th in the world for software piracy, with losses totalling $341m. This is quite small compared with some other counties, with the United States ($6,496m), France ($2,311m) and the United Kingdom ($1,601m) far exceeding losses experienced by Australia.

These losses at rates per 100,000 population remain similar. Australia ranks 14th at losses of $1.7m per 100,000 population. Switzerland has the highest rate at losses of $4m per 100,000 of the population.

Further information

• Software piracy losses 2003, rate per 100,000 population by selected countries
• Software piracy losses 2003, percentage, by selected countries

Other publications and data sources

• The recording industry 2006 commercial piracy report (PDF 1.6MB)
  IFPI, December 2006
• The facts
  Business Software Assocation of Australia
• Global software piracy study
  Business Software Alliance
  • Second annual BSA and IDC global software piracy study (PDF 900kB)
  • First annual BSA and IDC global software piracy study (PDF 873kB)
  • Eighth annual BSA global software piracy study : trends in software piracy 1994-2002 (PDF 1.1MB)
  • Seventh annual BSA global software piracy study (PDF 85kB)
• Counterfeiting of toys, business software, and computer and video games (PDF 694kB)
  Allen Consulting Group, 2003

Related links

• Statistics: Cybercrime; Fraud
• Topics: Intellectual property crime; Cybercrime