In the United States, a typical good-quality airboat in 2004 would have cost between $33,000 and $70,000. In a developing country like Iraq, however, an airboat could be purchased for as little as 2.5 million Iraqi dinars, or $2,147. In spite of their high cost, airboats are very widely used by civilians and tour operators: there are 12,164 airboats, 1,025 of them commercial, in Florida alone as of December 2017. Airboats are widely used in other Gulf Coast states, especially Louisiana, but they can be found in rivers, marshes, and icy areas around the world, from Nebraska to Siberia.