NEW YORK
\nAround 7,900 people died or disappeared on migration routes in 2025, taking the total dead and missing since 2014 beyond 80,000, the United Nations\u2019 migration agency said on Tuesday. The UN\u2019s International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said people were being forced into dangerous, irregular journeys when safe pathways were out of reach, and urged countries to find the political will to save more lives on migration routes.
\n\u201cThe deaths or disappearance of nearly 7,900 people were documented on global migration routes worldwide in 2025,\u201d the IOM said.The IOM\u2019s Missing Migrants Project \u201chas documented more than 80,000 deaths and disappearances during migration since 2014\u201d, the agency said. \u201cWhile these figures represent only the lowest boundary of the true number of affected people, they nonetheless underscore the need for urgent action to end migrant deaths and address the complex needs of families left behind,\u201d said the IOM.
\nThe IOM said the 7,904 deaths and disappearances documented in 2025 \u201cmark a continuation and escalation of a global failure to end these preventable deaths\u201d.\u201c2025 was marked by an unprecedented level of aid cuts and restriction of information on dangerous irregular routes, rendering more and more missing migrants invisible,\u201d it said. Meanwhile, \u201can even more hidden population\u201d of at least around 340,000 family members were estimated to be directly affected by the \u201congoing crisis of missing migrants\u201d.
\nThey are having to deal with the psychological, social, legal and economic impacts of having a relative whose disappearance remains unresolved, the agency said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW YORK Around 7,900 people died or disappeared on migration routes in 2025, taking the total dead and missing since 2014 beyond 80,000, the United Nations\u2019 migration agency said on Tuesday. The UN\u2019s International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said people were being forced into dangerous, irregular journeys when safe pathways were out of reach, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-543148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n