Migrant Route Deaths
At least 4,414 children died on migration journeys worldwide from 2014 through 2025, with the true toll believed to be higher.
Severity score
33.7
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
45Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
40People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
15Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
8Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
60Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.
Recent coverage
- 19 Oct 2026reliefweb.intOver 4,400 Child Migrant Deaths Recorded Since 2014, True Toll ...
- 13 Oct 2026donare.infoSudan: Famine risk persists in Darfur and Kordofan regions ... - DONARE
- 12 Oct 2026reliefweb.intDeath Toll in Djibouti Shipwreck Climbs to 139, UN Migration
- 12 Oct 2026news.un.orgLatest News | 1 UN News
- 12 Oct 2026iom.intDeath Toll in Djibouti Shipwreck Climbs to 139, UN Migration - IOM
- 12 Oct 2026nytimes.comOver 100 Migrants Are Dead After Boat Capsizes Near Djibouti
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