As Statista's Anna Fleck shows in the chart below, by far the deadliest place for journalists last year was in the Palestinian territories, where 14 deaths have already been counted in the first ten months of the year.

Following some way behind are Pakistan with six deaths currently reported there, five in Bangladesh, four in Mexico, three in each of Sudan, Myanmar and Iraq, as well as two deaths in Ukraine and Colombia, respectively.

A single journalist was also killed in each of the following countries: Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Honduras, Russia and Turkmenistan.

Meanwhile, 111 people are currently listed as "disappeared", with the highest numbers recorded in Mexico (31), Syria (9), Russia (6), Iran (6) and Kosovo (5).