More than 2,500 dead in Mediterranean

Over 2,500 people have died or gone missing while trying to cross the Mediterranean so far this year, while some 186,000 have arrived by sea in European countries during the same period


MEDITERRANEAN ARRIVALS OF REFUGEES / MIGRANTS IN 2023

Main migration routes

SPAIN 26,213

ITALY 132,781

GREECE 28,679

CYPRUS 3,280

MALTA 271

Atlantic Ocean
Madrid
MOROCCO 
ALGERIA
Mediterranean Sea
TUNISIA
Rome
LIBYA
Athens
EGYPT
TURKEY


MEDITERRANEAN ARRIVALS,2016-2023 
Includes sea arrivals to Italy, Cyprus and Malta and both sea and land arrivals to Greece and Spain

Dead and missing

373,652 185,139	141,472 123,663 95,774 	123,318 159,410 191,224 
5,096 	3,139	2,277 	1,510 	1,881 	3,231	2,439 	2,517
2016 	2017 	2018 	2019 	2020 	2021 	2022 	2023

2023: 2,517 people dead or missing so far – large increase from 1,680 in same period in 2022


*As of Sep 24


Sources: Reuters, AP, UNHCR
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