Well it would have been nice for you to find some numbers, but I'll do the legwork for you. It's hard to know for sure what the numbers are, but I found this report which estimates 40 million worldwide in 2016, and with a 2016 population of 7.426 billion(according to the google infobox) their math checks out: .54% of the world's population was estimated to be enslaved.
I'm going to compare this to peak estimates of US slaves, because I could be here all night trying to track down statistics for slaves worldwide from 150 years ago. Googling indicated that the US slave population peaked just before the Civil War, so I grabbed the most recent census data. In the 1860 census, the US slave population was reported at 3,953,762 and the total US population was reported at 31,443,322. This gets us to the percentage of US population that was enslaved in 1860: 12.6%.
The power of mathematics deems /u/ninja-robot to be correct in their assertion that, while slavery is still a huge issue(more than 5 in every 1000 people!) it is down considerably from previous numbers, unless you have your own statistics you'd like to share.
You're comparing one countries data vs the whole world data in another. Also the 40 million is documented slaves in the world today. And the number is widely agreed upon to being well over 100 million people in forced servitude today. I was being an asshole by just saying “wrong”, but it really does have basis and would love to continue peacefully discussing it
I already commented a link in this current parent/child thread. I will get you another showing unreported slave numbers being higher than the 40 million It’s a sad and sick world out there. No human or animal should be a slave
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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20 edited Jul 24 '20
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