BBC: Estimated number of slaves in countries around the world

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No , "modern slaves" in this BBC count do not include political slaves like SWCs Obama, McCain etc.

Estimated number of slaves

India - 13,956,010
China - 2,949,243
Pakistan - 2,127,132
Nigeria - 701,032
Ethiopia - 651,110
Russia - 516,217
Thailand - 472,811
DR Congo - 462,327
Burma - 384,037
Bangladesh - 343,192


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-24560937

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DON PESCI: Political Corruption And The Media (http://www.westhartfordnews.com/articles/2013/10/18/opinion/doc525bf4e80a6a0994831833.txt)West Hartford News-19 hours ago
The slave master both corrupts and is corrupted by his slavery. This kind of political slavery can only happen when the innate virtue of the ...

[Origanalist]

No , "modern slaves" in this BBC count do not include political slaves like SWCs Obama, McCain etc.

Estimated number of slaves

India - 13,956,010
China - 2,949,243
Pakistan - 2,127,132
Nigeria - 701,032
Ethiopia - 651,110
Russia - 516,217
Thailand - 472,811
DR Congo - 462,327
Burma - 384,037
Bangladesh - 343,192


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-24560937

There are seven billion people on this planet, somehow I think those numbers are wrong.

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There are seven billion people on this planet, somehow I think those numbers are wrong.

I assume you meant these numbers are under-reporting. But this index seems wrong, don't see US on the list.

[eduardo89]

There are seven billion people on this planet, somehow I think those numbers are wrong.

Exactly, where are the 300,000,000 Americans?

[tangent4ronpaul]

Exactly, where are the 300,000,000 Americans?

Yes, where are they?


The index was compiled by Australian-based rights organisation Walk Free Foundation using a definition of modern slavery that includes debt bondage, forced marriage and human trafficking.

OK, we just got the entire US and EU population and if you add forced marriages, the entire middle east. What about the political prisoners? Like the ones from the war on drugs?


The organisation's estimate of 29.8 million slaves worldwide is higher than other attempts to quantify modern slavery. The International Labour Organisation estimates that almost 21 million people are victims of forced labour.


The numbers seem way too low!

-t