Migrant laborers work late into the evening at a brick kiln in
central India. The lifetime profit on a brickmaking slave in
Brazil is $8,700, and $2,000 in India. Sexual slavery brings the
slave’s owner $18,000 over the slave’s working life in Thailand,
and $49,000 in Los Angeles. These are some chilling statistics
on global slavery. (Infographic) These are some of the numbers
recently published by a foundation financed by a New York
company that analyzes data for business intelligence, which
deployed the same techniques to look at the worldwide trade in
human trafficking. While slavery is illegal across the globe,
the SumAll Foundation noted, there are 27 million slaves
worldwide, more than in 1860, when there were 25 million. Most
are held in bonded servitude, particularly after taking loans
they could not repay. Slaves cost slightly more now, with a
median price of $140, compared with $134 per human then. Debt
slaves cost on average $60; trafficked sex slaves cost $1,910.
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