New report reveals the Mediterranean’s rising death rate
(CNN)New figures from the UN’s refugee agency show a rising death rate for people trying to reach Europe’s southern shores.
The UNHCR estimates that 2,275 migrants died in the Mediterranean in 2018. That’s the equivalent of one death for every 51 arrivals last year.
For comparison, the death rate was one for every 269 arrivals in 2015, when more than one million migrants attempted the perilous crossing.
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