2016 will go on the record as the year that saw the highest number of asylum-seeker deaths globally as they sought protection in an increasingly unwelcoming world.
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) says over 7,000 migrants and refugees died, or remain missing, on the world's migratory routes in 2016.
It says it's the highest annual number recorded by the United Nations body - significantly exceeding 2014 and 2015 figures.
As in previous years, says the I-O-M, over half were lost in the Mediterranean Sea while trying to reach Europe.
But the data also takes in cases in northern and southern Africa, Central America and the border region between the United States and Mexico.
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