Migrant Route Deaths
Deaths and disappearances on dangerous migration routes constitute an ongoing global humanitarian crisis. IOM-linked results report at least 7,667 people dead or missing worldwide in 2025, with roughly 340,000 family members directly affected; longer and more dangerous journeys may be worsening risks on major routes.
Severity score
32.2
Limited · default weighting
Trajectory
Steady
What this is
Score breakdown
Each factor is a 0–100 relative severity index, not the raw figure or a specific time period. The actual counts and periods are listed under "Standardized Impact" on the right.
Loss of life
48Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
37People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
8Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
3Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
65Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.
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