Currently in the world there are between 340 000 and 680 000 slaves

Slavery "as if" is prohibited in the whole world, but "as if" - it's about half a million people, now languishing in slavery in a small country in the Sahara desert - Mauritania. Number of slaves there is from 340 000 to 680 000 people, which is about 10-20% of the total population.

Unfortunately, there is no way of knowing exactly how many people ekspulatiruetsya today in Mauritania. This country has until recently resisted the general trend of the global rejection of slavery until 2007, the year slavery was not considered it illegal, despite the abolition of slavery as early as 1981. Over the past five years in Mauritania he was arrested only one slave owner, which means that long ago rejected by civilized humanity the slave system and still persists in the country, and public opinion can not affect it.

via factroom.ru