Around 7,900 migrants dead or missing on migratory routes worldwide in 2025, according to the O

Since the beginning of the year, IOM has already recorded 1,723 people dead or missing on migration routes.

A figure in decline but remains worrying. Around 7,900 migrants died or went missing on migration routes worldwide last year, less than the record of 9,200 recorded in 2024, according to a report 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 put an end to these avoidable deaths,” detailed the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in a report.

Since the beginning of the year, the IOM has already recorded 1723 people dead or missing on migration routes. According to the IOM, the decrease recorded last year “is partly due 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 explained by the financial restrictions imposed on humanitarian actors who document migrant deaths on the main migration routes,” added the Geneva-based organization.