The annual report, in its 31th edition, details the circumstances of the 47 killings which occurred during targeted attacks, bombings and cross–fire incidents as well as 2 accidental killings.
This is the fifth lowest death toll since the IFJ began publishing annual reports on journalists’ killings in 1990 and brings the total to 2725 journalists and media workers who lost their lives to violence in the world since then. 2021 registered 18 fewer killings than in the previous year (65).