Every recorded death and disappearance along the world’s migration corridors — and why the deportation pipeline feeds back into the same lethal routes.
79,849
Total Dead & Missing
22,169
Recorded Incidents
32,847
Mediterranean
6,659
US-Mexico Corridor
9,866
North Africa / Sahara
Global Incident Map — Every Recorded Death, 2014–2026
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Nearly 80,000 people have died or disappeared along the world’s migration corridors since 2014. The Mediterranean alone accounts for over 32,000. These are not historical figures — they are active hazard zones. Every corridor on this map is a potential deportation destination. The TPRN’s intervention logic applies globally: when the U.S. deports individuals to countries of origin or third countries, it inserts them into the same systems of vulnerability that produced these deaths.
Deaths by Region & Primary Route
Mediterranean
32,847
3,262 incidents · 41% of all global deaths
Central Med: 25,361 dead Western Med: 4,537 Eastern Med: 2,949
Drowning dominant. Libya → Italy corridor deadliest on Earth.
North Africa / Sahara
9,866
2,458 incidents
Sahara crossing: 5,068 dead Atlantic to Canaries: 3,590
Environmental exposure, dehydration. Bodies rarely recovered — true toll far higher.
Southern & SE Asia
11,978
5,705 incidents
Afghanistan → Iran: 5,340 dead Bay of Bengal: 2,497 Rohingya crossings: 441
Violence, drowning, exposure.
North America
5,623
4,699 incidents
US-Mexico border: 5,490 dead Caribbean → US: 95
Arizona desert, Rio Grande. Environmental exposure + drowning.
The TPRN was designed around the US deportation pipeline, but its three-node intervention model — early warning at origin, tracking through the invisible interior, reception at destination — maps onto every migration corridor in this dataset. The IOM data reveals the global pattern the TPRN addresses: enforcement without protection creates death. Deportation without coordinated reception repeats the same logic on a reversed vector.
Node 1 — Origin / Early Warning
The IOM data identifies consistent origin countries for migration deaths: Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Afghanistan, Syria, Eritrea, Somalia, Myanmar. These are both the countries people flee from and the countries the US and EU deport people to. Early warning systems at origin — whether San Diego courthouses or Kabul airports — address the same structural function: making the system visible before individuals enter the pipeline’s lethal interior.
Node 2 — Pipeline Interior / Tracking
The deadliest zones in this dataset — the Central Mediterranean, Sahara Desert, Arizona desert, Darién Gap — are all interiors: transit spaces where people become invisible to protection systems. The TPRN’s integrated tracking system addresses the same gap IOM documents globally. 4,507 deaths are classified as “mixed or unknown” cause — meaning no one was present to witness or record what happened. Invisibility kills.
Node 3 — Destination / Reception
When deportees arrive at destinations — whether Tapachula, Guatemala City, Kabul, or Mogadishu — they face the same hazard profile this data documents for migrants in those regions: lack of shelter, healthcare access, documentation, and social networks. The 2025 drop in US border deaths doesn’t mean fewer people at risk. It means the risk has been exported to destination countries along these same corridors, where IOM is still counting bodies.