It said that as of Monday, taking into account the latest updates, there were 1,005,504 "irregular arrivals" into Europe in 2015.
The figures show that the vast majority -- 971,289 -- have come by sea. Another 34,215 have traveled over land.
Among those traveling by sea, 3,695 are known to have drowned or remain missing as they attempted to cross the sea on unseaworthy boats, according to IOM figures.
IOM Director General William Lacy Swing has called the Mediterranean "the deadliest route for migrants on our planet." The 3,279 people who lost their lives attempting to cross it in 2014 accounted for 65% of all migrant deaths that year.
By contrast, there have been 6,029 deaths between 1998 and 2013 along the second-deadliest border: the one between the United States and Mexico, the organization said.
Deaths are also commonplace along land routes into Europe. In August, Austrian authorities found the bodies of 71 migrants, believed to be from Syria, who had suffocated in a truck abandoned along a highway.
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