Migrants: Frontex, 330 thousand arrivals in 2022, record since 2016

According to preliminary calculations, around 330,000 irregular crossings of the EU's external borders were detected in 2022.

This is the highest number since 2016 and a 64% increase from the previous year.

This is what the latest Frontex report discloses. After the minimum induced by the pandemic in 2020, this was the second consecutive year with a sharp increase in the number of irregular entries.

The Western Balkans route accounted for almost half of the total.

Syrians, Afghans and Tunisians together accounted for 47% of detections in 2022.

    The number of Syrians has nearly doubled to 94,000, the report said.

The number of detections in the central Mediterranean, compared to 2021, has increased by more than half, far exceeding 100,000 detections.

"Egyptians, Tunisians and Bangladeshis were the top three nationalities in a year that saw the highest number of arrivals to this region from Libya since 2017 and the highest number of arrivals from Tunisia in recent history," the European agency said.

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