Oim, over 7,100 is the estimate of migrants who died in 2016 alone

A record of 7,189 migrants or refugees is the same; the estimate of the dead or people who go missing in the world since the beginning of 2016, more than half of the of which, estimated at 4,812, in the Mediterranean alone.

These terrible figures were disclosed in December 2016 in Geneva by the IOM (International Organization for Migration).

The data provided exceeds one thousand units of the data. that of 2015. The world average of deaths linked to emigration is 50%. estimated at 20 deaths per day for 2016.

In 2014, the IOM had reported an estimate of 5,267 migrants dead or missing on the dangerous global migration routes and last year (2014) the figure had risen to 5,740, specifies a note.

The IOM underlines the fact that the number of migrants who have died or are still missing (presumed dead) appears to be increasing in all regions of the world, including the Mediterranean, the Northern and Southern Africa, Central America, and the US-Mexico border.