US EditionReport: 7,667 Migrants Died on Global Routes in 2025
At least 7,667 migrants died or went missing worldwide in 2025, with Asia and Mediterranean routes being deadliest amid shrinking legal pathways and reduced rescue capacity, the UN reported.
- The IOM reported almost 8,000 people died or went missing last year on migration routes, but the true toll is likely higher, the Reuters report said.
- Amid funding shortfalls, the International Organization for Migration warned cuts have hit humanitarian access and tracking, while stricter enforcement in Europe and the U.S. pushes migrants to smugglers and traffickers.
- Data from the IOM detail where fatalities concentrated, with at least 2,108 deaths in the Mediterranean and 922 crossing the Horn of Africa from Yemen to Gulf States, mostly Ethiopians, last year.
- Amy Pope, IOM Director General, said the continued loss of life on migration routes is a global failure we cannot accept and urged expanding safe, regular routes to protect people in need.
- Trends into 2026 indicate migrant deaths in the Mediterranean reached 606 by February 24, with the 2025 total falling to 7,667 from nearly 9,200 in 2024, the IOM said.
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8,000 died or vanished on migrant routes in 2025: UN
BERLIN: At least 7,667 people died or went missing last year on migration routes around the world, but the true death toll is likely higher, the UN’s migration agency reported on Thursday. The figure was down on 2024 when almost 9,200 deaths were recorded, but the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said numbers nonetheless reflected the “global scale” of the crisis faced by migrants. “The continued loss of life on migration routes i…
Nearly 8,000 migrants died or vanished on routes worldwide in 2025
At least 7,667 people died or went missing on migration routes globally in 2025, the UN migration agency reported Thursday, warning the true toll is likely higher and calling the ongoing losses a "global failure."
Almost 8,000 migrants died or vanished on routes in 2025: UN
Thousands of people died or went missing along global migration routes last year, the UN migration agency has reported. Deaths in the Mediterranean rose sharply early this year despite lower totals recorded in 2025.
The legal ways of migration are decreasing, pushing more people into the hands of smugglers, the International Organization for Migration said
The decrease in the number of deaths, which had reached 9,200 in 2024, is due to the decrease in the number of people who have taken irregular migration routes, "especially in the Americas"
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