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The International Labour Organization [7] estimates that, by their definitions, over 40 million people are in some form of slavery today. Some 24.9 million people are in forced labor, of whom 16 million people are exploited in the private sector such as domestic work, construction or agriculture, [8] 4.8 million people in forced sexual ...
The 2018 edition builds on the Global Estimates of Modern Slavery, which estimated that 40.3 million people were in some form of slavery on any given day in 2016. [1] The Index provides rankings across three dimensions: Size of the problem: estimated prevalence in terms of percentage of population and absolute numbers (by country) [2]
However, in 2019, approximately 40 million people, of whom 26% were children, were still enslaved throughout the world despite slavery being illegal. In the modern world, more than 50% of slaves provide forced labour , usually in the factories and sweatshops of the private sector of a country's economy. [ 9 ]
An even more startling fact: an estimated 29.8 million people are enslaved worldwide. With the massive increase in the global population, there are more people in slavery today, than at any other ...
The world’s 20 richest countries are fueling forced labor and account for over half the estimated 50 million people living in “modern slavery,” according to a report released Wednesday. The ...
The index increased its estimate of people born into servitude, trafficked for sex work, or trapped in debt bondage or forced labor to 45.8 million. Almost 46M people trapped in slavery with North ...
In 2019, there were an estimated 40.3 million people worldwide subject to some form of slavery, and 25% were children. [11] 24.9 million are used for forced labor, mostly in the private sector; 15.4 million live in forced marriages. [11]
The Freedom Fund is an international non-profit organisation dedicated to identifying and investing in the most effective frontline efforts to end slavery. [1] [2] In 2017, the International Labour Organization reported that on any given day in 2016, there were 40 million people living in modern slavery worldwide across a wide range of industries.