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Walk Free’s 2023 Global Slavery Index ranks India, China, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia and Indonesia top by prevalence.

The Claim

The Walk Free Foundation's Global Slavery Index 2023 lists the six countries with the largest numbers of people in modern slavery as India, China, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, and Indonesia.

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The Short Version

Walk Free’s 2023 data supports the ranking named in the claim. In the report’s global findings, those six countries are the top six by estimated number of people in modern slavery. The only notable caveat is that the report more explicitly presents a top-ten ranking and separately highlights a different six-country G20 grouping.

Caveats

  • The report’s most explicit presentation is a top-ten ranking, not a standalone official 'top six' list.
  • Elsewhere, Walk Free refers to a different set of six countries in a G20 context: India, China, Russia, Indonesia, Türkiye, and the United States.
  • The claim concerns absolute numbers of people, not prevalence rates; those are different measures and produce different country rankings.

The Receipts

  1. Global Slavery Index | Walk Free

    Walk Free

  2. The Global Slavery Index 2023

    Walk Free

  3. Global Slavery Index 2023: Prevalence and Government Response

    Policy Commons

  4. Global findings on modern slavery - Global Slavery Index 2023

    Walk Free

  5. The Global Slavery Index 2023 - World

    ReliefWeb

  6. Chart: Countries With the Highest Prevalence of Slavery

    Statista

  7. Mapped: The countries where modern slavery is most prevalent

    Axios

  8. Walk Free

    walkfree.org

  9. World map – The Global Slavery Index

    Walk Free

  10. Global Slavery Index

    Wikipedia

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ChinaGlobal Slavery Index 2023IndiaIndonesiaNorth KoreaPakistan

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