ROME (Reuters) - Dozens of&nbsp;migrants died on Sunday after they were shipwrecked off southern Italy, the latest such disaster.
The United Nations has registered more than 20,000 deaths and disappearances in the central&nbsp;Mediterranean&nbsp;since 2014, making it the most dangerous&nbsp;migrant&nbsp;crossing in the world.
Here is a timeline of some of the worst shipwrecks in the zone over the past eight years, according to data gathered by the U.N.'s missing&nbsp;migrants project.
The number of&nbsp;dead&nbsp;relates to bodies that were recovered. The figure given for the numbers of missing is often provided by survivors. In most cases they are missing, presumed&nbsp;dead.
2023
Feb. 26: Dozens die, 81 people survive when a boat that they had boarded in the Turkish port of Izmir breaks apart near the southern Italian coastal town of Crotone.
Feb. 14: 18 people&nbsp;dead, 55 missing, 7 survivors when a boat capsized east of Qasr Al-Akhyar, Libya.
2022
June 18: 13&nbsp;dead, 63 missing, 24 survivors in a sinking off Sfax, Tunisia.
April 2: No&nbsp;dead&nbsp;found, 96 missing, 4 survivors in a sinking off Misrata, Libya.
2021
Dec. 17: 9&nbsp;dead, 93 missing, 8 survivors after boat sinks off Sabratha, Libya.
April 22: 130 missing, no survivors after boat sinks 73 nautical miles north west of Al Khums, Libya.
2020
Nov. 12: 57&nbsp;dead, 18 missing, 48 survivors after boat sinks off the coast of Al Khums, Libya.
Sept. 21: 111 missing, 4 survivors after boat sinks off Sabratha, Libya.
2019
Aug. 19: 100 missing, 3 survivors when boat sinks at an unspecified location off Libya.
July 25: 75&nbsp;dead, 75 missing, 134 survivors when boat sinks off Al Khums, Libya.
July 3: 83&nbsp;dead, 3 survivors when boat sinks off the coast of Zarzis, Tunisia. The boat had sailed from Libya.
2018
Sept. 1: 2&nbsp;dead, 128 missing, 55 survivors when boat sinks off the coast of Al Khums, Libya.
June 29: 3&nbsp;dead, 101 missing, 16 survivors when boat sinks off the coast of Tripoli, Libya.
June 19: 6&nbsp;dead, 95 missing, 5 survivors when boat sinks west of Tripoli, Libya. A separate report for the same day says 70 people were missing and 60 survived a sinking off Tripoli.
June 2: 84&nbsp;dead, 28 missing, 68 survivors when a boat sinks off Kerkennah island, Tunisia.
Feb. 1: 14&nbsp;dead, 86 missing, 3 survivors when a boat sank off the coast of Zuwara, Libya.
Jan 9: 100 missing, 279 survivors when a boat sank off the coast of Al Khums, Libya.
2017
Aug. 30: 120 missing, 1 survivor when a boat sinks off the coast of Ben Guerdane, Tunisia.
June 17: 2&nbsp;dead, 108 missing, 25 survivors when a boat sinks off the coast of Zuwarah, Libya.
May 19: 11&nbsp;dead, 145 missing, 4 survivors northwest of Tripoli, Libya.
May 7: 11&nbsp;dead, 102 missing, 7 survivors off Az-Zawiyah, Libya.
Feb 19: 13&nbsp;dead, 105 missing, no survivors off the coast of Al Khums, Libya.
Jan 14: 9&nbsp;dead, 167 missing, 4 survivors 30-40 nautical miles off the coast of Libya.
2016
Nov 16: 7&nbsp;dead, 96 missing, 27 survivors in seas between Libya and Italy.
Nov. 2: 128 missing, 2 survivors in seas between Libya and Italy.
Nov. 1: 87&nbsp;dead, 24 missing, 29 survivors 25 miles off the coast of Libya.
Oct. 26: 97&nbsp;dead, 29 survivors 26 miles east of Tripoli, Libya.
Sept. 21: 204&nbsp;dead, 84 missing, 162 survivors 7.5 miles off the coast of Burg Rashid, Egypt.
July 31: 120&nbsp;dead&nbsp;off the coast of Sabratha, Libya.
June 3: 10&nbsp;dead, 329 missing, 318 survivors off the coast of Crete. The boat left Libya but drifted.
May 29: 45&nbsp;dead, 200 missing, 625 survivors of the coast of western Libya.
June 2: 133&nbsp;dead, 417 missing, 87 survivors off the coast near Zuwara, Libya.
May 25: 5&nbsp;dead, 250 missing, 460 survivors off the coast of Zawiya, Libya.
April 9: 459 missing, 37 survivors off the coast of el-Saloum, Egypt.
2015
Aug. 27 - 111&nbsp;dead, 91 missing, 198 survivors off the coast of Libya.
Aug. 6: 27&nbsp;dead, 200 missing, 373 survivors 16 miles north of Libya.
April 18: 750&nbsp;dead, 272 missing, 28 survivors 120 miles south of the Italian island of Lampedusa.
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(Reporting by Crispian Balmer; Editing by Frances Kerry)

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