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The Global Slavery Index

The Global Slavery Index report is published by the Walk Free Foundation.

Walk Free Foundation is committed to ending all forms of modern slavery in this generation. Modern slavery includes slavery, slavery-like practices (such as debt bondage, forced marriage and sale or exploitation of children), human trafficking and forced labour, and other practices described in key international treaties, voluntarily ratified by nearly every country in the world. Walk Free’s strategy includes mobilising a global activist movement, generating the highest quality research, enlisting business, and raising unprecedented levels of capital to drive change in those countries and industries bearing the greatest responsibility for all forms of modern slavery today.

Walk Free was founded by Andrew Forrest and Nicola Forrest, global philanthropists.

Information is a critical driver of change. Over time, the Global Slavery Index report will fill gaps in information about the size and nature of the problem, risk factors, and the effectiveness of responses. The intention is to inform and empower civil society groups working on this issue, and to assist governments to strengthen their efforts to eliminate all forms of modern slavery.

The Global Slavery Index is the first Index of its kind – providing an estimate, country by country, of the number of people living in modern slavery today.

A key finding from the inaugural edition of the report (2013) is that there are an estimated 29.8 million people in modern slavery globally.

According to the Index, the prevalence of modern slavery is highest in…
 * Mauritania
 * Haiti
 * Pakistan
 * India
 * Nepal
 * Moldova
 * Benin
 * Cote d’Ivoire
 * The Gambia
 * Gabon

However, when considered in absolute terms, the countries with the highest numbers of enslaved people are…
 * India
 * China
 * Pakistan
 * Nigeria
 * Ethiopia
 * Russia
 * Thailand
 * Democratic
 * Republic of Congo
 * Myanmar
 * Bangladesh

Taken together, these countries account for 76% of the total estimate of 29.8 million enslaved people.