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The Migrants' Files database on dead and missing migrants on their way to Europe, eepa.be, 01/04/ 2014 "More than 23,000 migrants have lost their lives while trying to reach Europe since 2000, an average of 1,600 every year. Journalists from Italy, Spain, Germany, Sweden and France have been working together since August 2013 to compile information on dead or missing migrants. The ‘Migrants’ files’ project has been realised by collecting data from the reportages of Fortress Europe, together with research of UNITED for Intercultural Action and from the ‘PULS’ data project of the University of Helsinki in collaboration with the Join Research Centre of the European Commission. The Migrants’ files database is organised according to the migrant’s name, gender, age and nationality and the fatal incident in which the migrant lost their life is recorded with the date and place (longitude and latitude), together with an explanation about the cause of death and with the number of dead/or missing migrants resulting from the incident.This comprehensive and detailed survey of European migration fatalities shows that previous estimates of the numbers of migrants who have lost their lives in attempted crossings grossly underestimates the real scale of the tragedy. To see the database click here:  http://www.detective.io/detective/the-migrants-filesTo read the Report in different languages click on the relevant language Italian, German, French and SpanishThe survey has been carried out by datajournalism agencies Journalism++ SAS, Journalism++ Stockholm and Dataninja ; media outlets Neue Zürcher Zeitung, El Confidencial, Sydsvenskan and Radiobubble as well as freelance journalists Jean-Marc Manach and Jacopo Ottaviani." http://www.eepa.be/wcm/320-eepa-news-and-activities/3476- https://www.detective.io/detective/the-migrants-files/&#160;&#160;