Ginebra.- Last year 2024 at least 1,233 people died on the migratory routes of America, a decrease of 12%, according to statistics from the United Nations International Organization for Migration.
In its figures, IOM authorities also recorded 95 deaths in attempts to reach Puerto Rico from the Dominican Republic.
This is the second consecutive year of declines, after a record number of 1,529 deaths recorded in 2022, but it is still the fourth deadliest year on the routes of the Americas since the IOM began permanently monitoring the victims of these routes through the Missing Migrants Project.
So far this year, 2025, this project, with its constantly updated statistics, has already recorded at least 93 migrant deaths in the Americas.
Of those who died last year in the Western Hemisphere, 523 perished on the US border. and Mexico, 187 on the journey from the Caribbean to the US coast, and 174 on the Darien Gap, the dangerous jungle route in the region that connects Colombia and Panama.
The IOM clarified that its figures for the Americas are provisional, and emphasized that it had never recorded so many deaths in the Caribbean or Darien.
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Since these statistics began in 2014, they have been recorded in the American migration routes 11,038 deaths, a figure only surpassed by the 31,722 dead or missing in the Mediterranean and the 16,895 in Africa.
Of those more than 11,000 deaths in the Americas over the last decade, 6,439 died on the border between Mexico and the United States, 758 on the route between the Caribbean and the United States, and 542 in Darien.
