Missing migrant project

The IOM (International Organization for Migration) estimates that the number of deaths of migrants who left Africa and Asia to reach Europe is of 2406 for the year 2022.

The IOM has set up a “Missing migrant project” active since 2014 with which it takes into account the victims by taking into consideration three routes: Central, Western and Eastern Mediterranean. The first, which connects Libya and Tunisia to Italy, is the most lethal.

Over 17 thousand dead and missing were recorded from 2014 to the first months of 2023. The worst massacre in the central Mediterranean dates back to 3 October 2013: a 20-metre boat departing from Misrata, in Libya, was shipwrecked half a mile from Lampedusa. The toll of confirmed dead is of 368 people while about twenty are missing.