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Nearly half of slaves are in India

Did you know that around 30 million people are enslaved worldwide? This is higher than other attempts to quantify slavery nowadays.The International Labour Organisation estimates that almost 21 million people are victims of forced labour, REUTERS says.

Almost half of them (13,9 million) are in India. China has 2.9 million, followed by Pakistan (2.1 million), Nigeria (701,000), Ethiopia (651,000), Russia (516,000), Thailand (473,000), Democratic Republic of Congo (462,000), Myanmar (384,000) and Bangladesh (343,000).

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