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“The Walk Free Global Slavery Index 2023 lists India, China, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, and Indonesia as the six countries with the largest estimated numbers of people in modern slavery.”
Walk Free’s 2023 index does place India, China, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, and Indonesia as the top six countries by estimated number of people in modern slavery. The wording is somewhat incomplete because the report actually continues to a top ten, not a standalone official top six. That caveat does not change the main factual takeaway.
“In 2021, North Korea had the highest prevalence of modern slavery in the world.”
The best available global estimate places North Korea highest for modern-slavery prevalence in 2021. That conclusion comes from Walk Free’s Global Slavery Index, the main source on this topic. But the figure is modelled under major data limitations because North Korea is highly closed, so the claim is better understood as a leading estimate than as a directly verified fact.