Missing Migrants

Project Overview

Missing migrant project is an initiative implemented since 2014 by the international organization for Migration (IOM) to document deaths and disappearances of people in the process of migration towards an international destination. It was started in the wake of two Shipwrecks in October 2013 when at least 368 people died near Italian Island of Lampedusa. Since then, over 40000 immigrants have died globally.

This project therefore helps to analyze the number of dead and missing over the years, how the incidences differ in different continents and what is being done to end these tragedies.

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Problem Statement

The Missing Migrants Project hosts the only existing global database on migrant deaths. More than 44,000 migrants around the world have lost their lives since the project began in 2014. More than half of these deaths were recorded in the Mediterranean Sea, which has seen a devastating spike in deaths in recent years.

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