Missing Migrants

Greece - One week into the New Year, IOM’s Missing Migrants Project reports 46 migrants or refugees have been reported dead or missing in the Mediterranean.

Greece - With 3,771 deaths, 2015 was the deadliest year on record for migrants and refugees crossing the Mediterranean trying to reach Europe. 

Greece - IOM confirmed yesterday (21/12) that over a million irregular migrants and refugees arrived in Europe in 2015, mostly from Syria, Africa and South Asia.

Greece - IOM estimates 45,255 migrants and refugees have reached the Greek islands from Turkey since the beginning of December.

Greece - IOM estimates that over 909,000 migrants and refugees have entered Europe by sea so far in 2015 - four times the 219,000 recorded in all of 2014.

Germany - IOM’s Global Migration Data Analysis Centre and UNICEF shows that children make up at least one in five of the 870,000 arrivals to Europe in 2015.

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