이들 중 3천224명이 허술한 배로 지중해를 건너다 익사한 '보트피플'이었고 인도양 벵골만(540명), 멕시코미국 국경(307명)에서도 사망자가 많았다.
Of these, 3,224 people were 'boat people' who drowned while crossing the Mediterranean in a weak boat, and there were also many deaths in the Indian Ocean in the Bay of Bengal (540) and at the Mexican-US border (307).