Reuters: Almost 46 million people trapped in slavery with North Korea, India key offenders: global index
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Almost 46 million people are living as slaves globally with the greatest number in India but the highest prevalence in North Korea, according to the third Global Slavery Index launched on Tuesday with Australian actor Russell Crowe.
The index, by Australia-based human rights group Walk Free Foundation, increased its estimate of people born into servitude, trafficked for sex work, or trapped in debt bondage or forced labor to 45.8 million from 35.8 million in 2014.
Andrew Forrest, founder of Walk Free, said the rise of nearly 30 percent was due to better data collection, although he feared the situation was getting worse with global displacement and migration increasing vulnerability to all forms of slavery.
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4 comments:
Sadly, I don't believe this figure. There are many, many more than 46 mllion and we can expect their numbers to grow.
There are about 195 counties in the world.
167 / 195 = 85.6%
The other counties would be postage stamp countries like Andorra, Lichtenstein, Vatican (?) and pacific island or Caribbean countries.
That is population-wise they are unimportant (not that slavery is un-important).
Statistically this hits 100% of the countries. If these countries were a little larger or more time was spent I have no doubt that we would hit 100%.
This number does not include debt slavery if it did the number would be much higher.
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