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<p>I am not a pessimistic person. On the contrary, I always try to look at the bright side of life. I also believe that living conditions are now better than years ago as <a rel="nofollow" href="https://ourworldindata.org/a-history-of-global-living-conditions-in-5-charts" target="_blank">these plots show</a>. But reducing the complexity of our world to just six graphs is riskily simplistic. Our world is quite far of being a fair place and one example is the immigration drama.</p>
<p>Last year there were 934 incidents around the world involving people looking for a better life where more than 5.300 people lost their life o gone missing, 60% of them in Mediterranean. Around 8 out of 100 were children.</p>
<p>The missing migrant project tracks deaths of migrants, including refugees and asylum-seekers, who have gone missing along mixed migration routes worldwide. You can find a huge amount of figures, plots and information about this scourge in <a rel="nofollow" href="https://missingmigrants.iom.int/" target="_blank">their website</a>. You can also download there a historical dataset with information of all these fatal journeys, including location, number of dead or missing people and information source from 2015 until today.</p>
<p>I this experiment I read the dataset and do some plots using <code>highcharter</code>; you can find a link to the R code at the end of the post. </p>
<p>This is the evolution of the amount of deaths or missing migrants in the process of migration towards an international destination from January 2015 to December 2017:</p>
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<p>The Mediterranean is the zone with the most incidents. To see it more clearly, this plot compares Mediterranean with the rest of the world, grouping previous zones: </p>
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<p>Is there any pattern in the time series of Mediterranean incidents? To see it, I have done a LOESS decomposition of the time series:</p>
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<p>Good news: trend is decreasing for last 12 months. Regarding seasonal component, incidents increase in April and May. Why? I don’t know.</p>
<p>This is a map of the location of all incidents in 2017. Clicking on markers you will find information about each incident:</p>
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<p>Every of us should try to make our world a better place. I don’t really know how to do it but I will try to make some experiments during this year to show that we have tons of work in front of us. Meanwhile, I hope this experiment is useful to give visibility to this humanitarian disaster. If someone wants to use the code, the complete project is available <a rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/aschinchon/fatal-journeys" target="_blank">in GitHub</a>.</p>
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