A new study released by Walk Free Foundation has disclosed that up to 680,000 people are living in slave-like conditions in Ethiopia. Read the study here.
The Global Slavery Index provides a ranking of 162 countries, reflecting a combined measure of three factors: estimated prevalence of modern slavery by population, a measure of child marriage, and a measure of human trafficking in and out of a country.
The following ten countries ten countries account for 76% of the total estimate of 29.8 million enslaved people: India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Russia, Thailand, Congo, Myanmar, Bangladesh.