As an Indian, it's shameful to see India tops the list of modern slavery. We all should accept that there are many social evils in our country ranging from Sanitaion, poverty, Rape cases, corruption etc. Root cause is poverty and huge population which forces small children to go into bonded labour, suffer from sexual exploitation and grow without education. I hope that these problem gets eliminated when we enter 2030.

Slavery was still *legal* in Saudi Arabia until 1969. That's just the public relations side of things.

Please feel grateful that no matter what color or gender you are, being born to a stable and decent family in a Western country means you are already luckier than billions of other people.

This world is so incredibly sad, I feel the pain of my fellow brothers and sisters. May these poor souls not become victims of evil, but victims of hope.

inb4 someone edgy comments "we're all wage slaves to the evil corporations"

Why was Australia red in the thumbnail but then listed at 7th best in the world in the video?

The ranking should be based on percentage of population...

Why is the top 10 countries with least amount of slavery based on the percentage of the population while the rest of the video is based on the total amount of slaves.

That girl selling flowers literally brought tears to my eyes :'(

Correction: North Korea: 25 million slaves.

I think this video should be shown at every university. Particularly in America. Imagine if you could task all those, fierce, energetic, determined students to focus on modern slavery instead of historical slavery. They could accomplish great things.

Our black people keep complaining about past slavery and yet we have modern slavery that needs to be resolved today.

Where are the Emirates?

Hmm...thats why in UAE's Dubai you see slaves from India,China, Pakistan, Malaysia ..wait a minute...why isnt Dubai in this list?

What’s with the thumbnail? Australia and New Zealand colour coded as hotbeds of slavery...?

Countries (given by the list at 4:26) with the least amount of slavery ranked by percentages: 1. Austria - 0,01751% 2. Belgium - 0,01775% 3. Germany - 0,01796% 4. US - 0,01799% 5. UK - 0,01804% 6. Spain - 0,01806% 7. France - 0,01808% 8. Australia - 0,01809% 9. Canada - 0,01812% 10. Sweden - 0,01845%

You forgot unpaid internships for students

This is sad. It's also sad that instead focusing on the suffering of those mentioned in this video, people are coming here and using this information for deflection or as ammo for their own political agendas.

Imagine if your little brother was a slave; working hard all day, cry in the evening and never be happy playing with his toys. I am glad i was born in Norway with a silver spoon and can get everything I am pointing on.

I suddenly feel very domesticated and sheltered.

These are extremely conservative estimates. The actual numbers are likely much higher.

It is really disappointing that there are so many ignorant comments here

More people need to see this

What sucks is there's seemingly nothing anyone can do to fix any of this.

I am from Europe, lived in China for about 5 years (combining different periods). I lived in modern cities like Shanghai, Wuxi, Suzhou. Every weekend I would go out, and quite often did I see very young kids begging and trying to sell flowers in front of nightclubs after midnight, while their 'handlers' (very old women in most cases) were standing around the corner or looking from a distance. Countless times have I shouted at them, that the kid should be in bed, asked if they were family, etc. I speak Mandarin quite well but they always acted like they had no clue. Kids like that on the street is not an uncommon sight, and I bet in lower tier cities it is even worse. Prostitution is rampant too, it all happens under the noses of the police and they don't seem to care... as long as you pay them I guess.

where is Saudi and emirate in the liste

At 4:15 it's heart breaking to see these young girls forced into this😭😭

When I saw the thumbnail, I thought that the Arab regions had more slaves than they did for some regions

Where is Saudi Arabia on this list?

*T H E S T A N S*

The thumbnail for this vid is really misleading, just look at Australia/New Zealand for example

No mention of the US prison system?

People - before you start arguing in the comments about whether this is Imperialist US propaganda or not. realize that its a 7 minute video - condensed version of a worldwide study and an academic book that was written by a scientist who has spent quite a long time studying the problem, and the links to the web site of the study and the full interview with the author are in the description so you could at least be armed with some knowledge before you shoot your mouth off. Im not saying the makers of the video didnt cherry-pick the data to show a particular point of view - just saying you will have more to contribute if you check the sources.

some of these comments make me sick

uses click bait image and slavery topic to make money...

Saudi Arabia didn't show up in the list , who could've topped the charts. So you can guess how authentic his assessment is in this regard.

It's rare to see a top 10 video dedicate half of its running time to the idea of helping. Loved it. Keep up the good work!

I have personally witnessed a child being kidnapped from a busy railway station on a crowded office day in broad daylight in Calcutta , one of the four biggest city in India. The situation in other parts of India sp in the North Indian states are still worse. Considering my own experiences, sheer logic ,various statistical social indicators ,all pervading nexus between police, crimnals,politicials and the corrupt rich , an abominably bad judiciary I have every good reason to believe in the credibility of this report. Like many other social evils, in terms of slavery too unfortunately India stands as the biggest he'll.

I guess we aren't counting the use of prison labor?

my dad and many other young men from his town (who are from Pakistan) were promised jobs in Libia in the 80s...there, their passport were confiscated and they were forced to work for 2 small meal a day which they had to share and they all had to sleep together on the floor in a room. I'm still not sure how they escaped... I'm saddened to know how this still happens to many young men who go to middle eastetn countries such as Saudia Arabia

BTW I'm not bashing America But I think it can be higher than 60,000 As illegal immigrants can be treated like slaves

Wow. Millions of people are being enslaved around the world and neither the US or European countries are being blamed. Progress!

In Pakistan there are laws like Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929, and the Punjab Child Marriages Restraint (Amendment) Act, 2015. People on Pak-Afgan perfer traditional laws over fedral laws. There is also a debt bondage problem involving the brick klin workers here.

I feel America should be up there. Not only because it takes advantage of illegal immigrants with fear of deportation, but it also used their prison population to make products for companies. Which in turn they are paid an extremely low wage for.

I think India having a social caste system may also play a major role in the slave industry there. Just speculation.

I'm ashamed to see all these stupid comments on such an important and hard-hitting topic.

Slavery is one of those issues that, I feel, it is more effective to look at raw numbers than ratios - which is done for the first half of this video, but not the second. By this video's metrics, the US is the number one country most effective at fighting slavery, but by the numbers shown, we have more slaves (mostly prison labor, if I'm not mistaken) than next six countries on the list combined. Fifty thousand people is not a statistic, it's lives.

Thank you for such a brilliantly succinct overview.

lol China and India are two countries with most population in the world. Even 1 percent means a lot of ppl. This ranking is so FAIR.

We are all slaves the difference is that some live in chains and others live in debts!

These lives matter more! They deserve more of our concern. Modern slavery is worse than first world modern racism.

Why aren’t American News Networks upset about a slavery that is a current event instead of moaning about a past event?

Most of the comments here don't even understand the meaning of slavery and simply adding it to random things and then blaming The West/America for it. Kind of pathetic tbh.

You forgot to mention the United States prison system. Also there are people involved in forced labor outside of the prison system in the states as well.

Australia not looking good in that thumbnail.

VOTE to stop modern slavery!!! vote.gov/

In Australia, it's a public knowledge that many people who work in shops, restaurants and other places are underpaid. Some could be paid way below the minimum wage like $8, $5 or even less.

Earth is a Prison

Egypt slavery was revoked wasn't it ? As a theory . Idk. China slavery is creepy too

I can't believe how ignorant I am that I had no idea this is happening today. I am grateful to have been born free and I will start to look into how to help those who are not. I am not a believer of any religion but I hope that some cosmic force will direct my prayers towards them.

This isn't slavery guys! It's society! They work for each other and pay each other money. (anyone get the reference?)

Why didn't you count school?!?! Edit: You guys can't take a joke.

I feel bad for the people who end up being sold to torturers

4:29 is the moment where lincon sheds a tear and the star spangled banner blasts in full volume

I believe that the number of enslaved and trafficked humans in the US is much higher than estimated.

In the US Mexicans come to work for corporations get their documents seized and forced economically in to labor

Why is Australia red in the thumbnail? Misleading.

This is sickening and must be stopped!!!!

The ten countries with the most people in modern slavery (victims of human trafficking).

Brazil - +200.000.000

It is sick and disturbing that this "modern slavery" is being compared to the slavery that occurred throughout the World prior to 1865. Slavery is being forced to work against your will. More importantly, you can't just quit, leave, not show up for work, refuse to work, etc. True slavery is no different than being a prisoner. If you escape for any reason, you will be hunted down, punished, and forced back into the circumstances that you tried to escape from. You have no choice in regards to who you work for, the type of labor you perform, how long you work, or how you will be compensated. You have no choice as to where you stay, where you go, what you eat, how much you eat, or who you can associate with. Every aspect of your life is controlled and at the discretion of the person or organization who owns/enslaves you. Quit conflating being severely underpaid or compensated with being a "slave". Working 70 hours a week for a loaf of bread is not slavery, unless you deciding to quit or not show up to work the next day results in a bullet to your head. If someone isn't sent to capture you and force you against your will to go back to the job site, then you are not a slave.

Search Results Featured snippet from the web In 2012, it was estimated that 10-20% of the population of Mauritania (between 340,000 and 680,000 people) live in slavery. No mention of this why?

I have a serious question to African Americans, if you're not gonna answer with respect and in a professional manner don't even respond: how can we work together to help people that have suffered the same fate as your ancestors? If it's such an issue how can you and I come together to make sure nobody else has to suffer? Keep that in mind, god bless!

1) Turkey isn't European 2) This is the sort of things people in developed countries should know about for those that think slavery does not exist.

Number 9 .... No .... that can't be ... my HOME COUNTRY . Glad I emigrated to America! 🇨🇩 ➡️🇺🇸

Slavery used to look like this Wow, credibility lost in literally the first 2 seconds. That is a record

Americans: We should do something about modern slavery in other countries and fund anti slavery programs. Black "Victims": I deserve the money since my ancestors toiled in the field over a hundred years ago, yet I have not suffered the same fate

The Egyptians who built the pyramids (which weren't all built at the same time) were not slaves, at least the majority anyway. It is a myth. The Egyptians were obsessed with the afterlife and the opportunity to build a resting place worthy of the 'great' Pharoahs (who were seen as living gods by a lot of them) was more than worth their time. It was a national construction project.

Income inequality isn’t slavery… it may suck but it’s not slavery.

Please find some time to keep this channel alive. I like your input! Be safe and 🦾

All I wanna know is how I'm supposed to feel good that I'm indian if it's in such turmoil. My god

5 out of 10 on this list are Islamic nations.

Here in Brasil some criminal organizations are force-recruiting young boys to be their initiates by threatening to kill their families. The worst of all is that they eventually get used to and start to like that life of easy gains and power flaunting. Since some areas are completely controlled by these criminal organizations due to difficult access (narrow roads, hilly area, etc), they're effectively kings there.

he didn't mention the biggest slave company in America aka the prison system it self slave inmates n only pay them 23 cents and force to work for gain time,and many other businesses is are business partners with them to get the labor from the inmates with very low wages n da inmate is only promise to get gain time by doing labor that would cost a regular citizen $15 a hour work...prison system is a $37 billion dollar company in America have the number 1 mass incarceration in the world with the most prisons in the world,and only prison Latinos and blacks but more blacks then anything...do some research the prison system is the New Jim Crow,in 1971 Richard Nixon announced war on drugs aka public enemy number one,basically war on drugs was war on blacks after the cia planted drugs in the black community,knowing the black panther party was fully against drugs,cause of this was because the Government and FBI J Edgar Hoover and Rodney Reagon didn't like how the black panther party was uniting the black community together n other races as well,they dont like to see a black leader in America with millions of followers,that's why they killed MLK,Malcolm X and black panther party and made a organizations called " us" to attack the black panther party J edgar Hoover again was the one behind all these black leader murders ,they said MLK was the biggest threat in America just like they said bout the black panther party,i know many people never thought the black panther party could go against the strongest army in the world and win,so how they was a biggest threat?? they was peaceful also,slavery didn't really go away they just designed it secretly and made the New Jim Crow in the prison system,in America you can see definitely if you black that's if your skin is black your life doesn't matter to the court system like that if you been killed by a law enforcement unjustly definitely if you black and poor,the system was made to bring down blacks n put whites above them,America was built by black slaves but wasnt built for blacks to be successful then whites,u would never see the White House full of blacks n I promise you that,its called the White House for a reason

Slavery is defined 2 things: 1) Unpaid, or almost unpaid. 2) Lack the freedom to just walk away from work and quit. This negates many countries on the list. For example, median yearly wage of Chinese migrant factory workers is $11k US dollar equivalent. That's a decent wage in that part of the world where living expenses cost less. To put things into perspective, median yearly wage of Mexican field laborers picking vegetables under the sweltering sun in the US is $14k. Cost of living is far higher than in China. Farm owners take $3k-$6k per year out of that $12k for lodging. On the other hand, Chinese factories provide free lodging to its workers, free meals, free uniforms, and electronic factories are air conditioned by necessity. There's a reason Chinese migrant workers leave home to go to cities for work willingly - they earn far more than work the fields at home, and in air conditioned electronics factory, compared to under the sweltering sun. This list looks like propaganda more than anything else. Domestic workers in Saudi Arabia are beaten regularly, forbidden to leave, and often unpaid. Yet they receive no mention just because Saudis are our ally.

It's not slavery, if a person is ok with that.

I had no clue how good I have it here in the states until I was made aware of what other countries have to go through.

This is about illegal slavery, but legal slavery exist too. Multinationals moved their businesess to low income countries for a reason, low wages and less regulation. They let people work for very low wages and for long hours, and in all those hours they earn just enough to eat. Technically those people ar no slaves, but they don't really have an option to quit. They work hard to just eat, while the company earns a lot of money from those products.

I thought it said salary but then I saw Africas salary then I saw the title

Holy sheeettt! I'm so glad that my country is one of those countries have lightest color in Slavery map. I feel so sorry for all of my neighbor countries! Hope there will no more slavery at any form in this world!

"Thus Sayeth The Lord, LET MY PEOPLE GO" -MOSES

In India the government has really done many things about it ... People of Morden slavery are declining day by day ... And now in 2020 I don't think there are any Morden slavery cases

a mention of Brazil, which has countless slaves working in sawmills in the Amazon and makes clandestines, in addition to exporting slaves to other countries in South America.

You forgot the fourth category... BDSM

The American prison population has to be included in this. There are prisoners that are trained professionals in many fields that get put to work for pennies on the dollar in prison, and have no choice to do so if they want to have their own money. I know of a guy who was an appliance tech for General Electric while in prison, but when he finished his sentence could not get hired anywhere despite his experience, not even General Electric. The US prison population is out of control and according to our own constitution and the 13th amendment, prisoners are slaves.

AUSTRALIA IS UP THERE - THIS COUNTRY WAS INVADED, THEY DISPLACED THE ABORIGINES OF OUR TRIBAL LANDS& WERE ENSLAVED. MY GRANDFATHER STILL HAD TO GET PERMISSION TO TAKE $$ OUT OF HIS BANK ACCOUNT IN THE 1970's!! He worked as a stockman.

The images of China was stolen from a popular Chinese cuisine documentary. It is totally fine to steal, but please cover the title 舌尖上的中国 (the taste of China)please, it looks ridiculous.

America is finally #1 in something good

It surprising to me that India and China still have slaves but the European countries don’t I always think that the the only countries that have slaves are the European countries

Nice one India, you're number 1. Should be very proud! 🇮🇳✌