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The shocking number of slaves in the world’s richest countries

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New Zealand: 800 slaves
Denmark: 1,000
Australia: 4,300
Cyprus: 4,700
Canada: 6,500
Finland: 6,700
Spain: 8,400
United Kingdom: 11,700
France: 12,000
Portugal: 12,800
Germany: 14,500
Netherlands: 17,500
Bulgaria: 29,000
Czech Republic: 42,600
Greece: 44,200
United States: 57,700
Tunisia: 85,000
Italy: 129,600
Brazil: 161,100
Argentina: 175,500
Poland: 181,000
Peru: 200,500
South Korea: 204,900
South Africa: 248,700
Japan: 290,200
Colombia: 308,200
Mexico: 376,800
Thailand: 425,500
Turkey: 480,300
Russia: 1,048,500
China: 3,388,400
India: 18,354,700
North Korea, the country with the highest slave population: 1,100,000
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According to the latest Global Slavery Index, there is estimated to be a total of 45.8 million people living in modern slavery across the world. And they are not just in the world’s poorest places, as these sobering figures show.
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08 June 2016

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