International Organization for Migration: Nearly a hundred migrants have disappeared or died in the Mediterranean in 2024. Missing, there is an urgent need to open a normal immigration route.
2023 will be the year with the highest number of deaths of maritime migrants in Europe since 2016. Since the beginning of 2024, nearly 100 migrants have died or gone missing in the central and eastern Mediterranean. The number of dead and missing migrants across the Mediterranean region is increasing year by year, from 2,048 in 2021 to 2,411 in 2022, and to 3,041 by the end of 2023.