In 2019, the website Global Slavery Index estimated that there are 421,000 slaves in Vietnam.<ref>[https://www.globalslaveryindex.org/2018/findings/regional-analysis/asia-and-the-pacific/ Global Slavery Index = Asia and the Pacific]</ref>
Due to political repression, government corruption and the persecution of the religious, a portion of the individuals in China, North Korea and Vietnam, are under government run forced labor (see:[[Atheism and forced labor]]).
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