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I just found this report from February which gave a fresh set of statistics about use of tor hidden services by category from researchers at Kings College London.

I downloaded the original paper and added it into Wikipedia, calculating percentage service against their data set to be compared with the previous ones.

Category | Description|Instances in study|As percentage

Violence|Hitmen for hire and instructional material on conducting violent attacks|170.3

Arms|Trading of firearms and weapons|420.8

Social|Online communities for sharing illicit material in the form of forums social networks and other message boards|641.2

Hacking|Hackers for hire trade or distribution of malware or DDoS capabilities|961.8

Illegitimate pornography|Pornographic material involving children violence animals or materials obtained without participants’ consent|1222.3

Nexus|Websites primarily focused on linking to other illicit websites and resources within the darknet|1182.3

Extremism|Content espousing extremist ideologies including ideological texts expressions of support for terrorist violence militant how-to guides and extremist community forums|1402.7

Unknown|1553.0

Other illicit|Materials that did not easily fit into the other categories but remain problematic such as trade of other illegal goods and fake passports or Ids|1983.8

FinanceMoney laundering counterfeit bills trade in stolen credit cards or accounts|3276.3

Drugs|Trade or manufacture of illegal drugs including illegally obtained prescription medicine|4238.1

Other|Non-illicit content such as ideological or political content secure drop sites information repositories legitimate services|102119.6

None|Websites which were either completely inaccessible or otherwise had no visible content including websites which hosted only placeholder text indicating that their operator had yet to generate indicative conten|248247.7

When you consider key data points like drugs only being 8.1%, you may be able to double the figure based on the almost 50% unknown services. This places it at 16.2%, a small increase from the January 2015 figures of 15.4%.

TL;DR Drugs & Cybercrime