Since the beginning of the year, IOM has registered 1,723 people dead or missing on migratory routes.
A figure in decline but still worrying. About 7,900 migrants died or went missing on migratory routes worldwide last year, less than the record of 9,200 registered in 2024, according to a count published on Tuesday, April 21 by the UN.
“With more than 80,000 deaths and disappearances documented during migrations worldwide since 2014, the nearly 8,000 deaths recorded in 2025 mark the continuation and worsening of a global failure to end these preventable deaths”, detailed the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in a report.
Since the beginning of the year, IOM has already registered 1,723 people dead or missing on migratory routes. According to the IOM, last year’s decline “is partly linked to a real decrease in the number of people attempting to take irregular and dangerous migration routes”, especially in the Americas. “But it is also due to the financial restrictions imposed on humanitarian actors who document migrants’ deaths on the main migration routes”, added the organization based in Geneva.
