About 7,900 migrants have died or gone missing on migratory routes around the world in 2025, according to the.

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

A figure in slight decline but still worrying. Approximately 7,900 migrants died or went missing on migration routes worldwide last year, which is less than the record of 9,200 recorded in 2024, according to a count published on Tuesday, April 21st by the UN.

“With over 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 end these preventable deaths”, detailed the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in a report.

Since the beginning of the year, IOM has already recorded 1,723 dead or missing people on migration routes. According to IOM, the decrease recorded last year “is partly linked 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 documenting migrant deaths on the main migration routes”, added the Geneva-based organization.