More than one million refugees and migrants braved the seas in 2015 seeking sanctuary in Europe, almost five times more than in the previous year, the United Nations’ refugee agency said on Wednesday.
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Perhaps the most striking statistic from UNHCR, however, is the number of people considered “missing”: 3,700 people are listed as such, most of whom are believed to have drowned.
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The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees’ announcement came only a week after the International Organization for Migration said the total number of people arriving in Europe this year had topped a million – including 34,215 who arrived across land borders.
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More than 80% of the 1,000,573 people arrived in Greece, with the majority landing on Lesbos island.
This year, a record 500,000 people fleeing a four-year civil war in Syria have traveled through Turkey and then risked their lives in often fragile boats to reach Greece, their gateway to the European Union.
While Europe was initially caught off guard by the huge influx of migrants and refugees, the UNHCR says European nations are starting to coordinate their response.
“The vast majority of those attempting this unsafe crossing are in need of global protection”, the agency said. Germany’s interior minister Thomas de Maiziere said Monday the number of migrants arriving in the country has declined significantly over the past week or two.
Turkey is home to more than 2 million refugees from Syria, as well as thousands of others from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Immigration to Western Europe seems incessant even in the winter when the weather is very cold in Europe.
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Greece was by far the most popular arrival point, with 844,176 arrivals, many of them on Lesvos island. During that year around 216,000 made the crossing.
