Most migrants who went missing were crossing the Central Mediterranean

BY AADIT TAMBE

Since 2014, at least 22,942 people have lost their lives during unsafe migration journeys across the Mediterranean, according to data collected by the Missing Migrants Project. These charts show how many people have disappeared — or died due to transportation accidents, shipwrecks, violent attacks, or medical complications during their journeys — along the six most dangerous migratory routes each year.

SOURCE: MISSING MIGRANTS PROJECT.
NOTE: data from 2014 to 2021 — current as of May 1, 2022.