Europe — Mixed Migration Flows to Europe Monthly Overview (November 2019)

A total of 117,904 migrants and refugees arrived in Europe through different land and sea routes between January and November 2019, 12 per cent less than the same period of 2018 when 133,655 sea and land arrivals were reported, 34 per cent less than the 178,232 arrivals registered in this period of 2017 and 68 per cent less than the 373,260 registered during this period in 2016.
There were 73,939 registered arrivals via the Eastern Mediterranean route (63% of the total) in Bulgaria, Cyprus and Greece between January and November 2019. Another 29,775 arrivals were registered via the Western Mediterranean route (25%) leading to Spain in the same period, and 14,190 were registered crossing the Central Mediterranean route (12%), arriving by sea to Italy and Malta. This confirms that the Eastern Mediterranean route continues to surpass both the Western and Central Mediterranean routes as the main route taken by migrants and refugees travelling to Europe by sea and land, as it has done since February 2019. In the same period of 2018, the Western route was recorded as the most active with 59,747 arrivals (45% of the total in the same period of 2018). On the Eastern route there were 49,715 registered arrivals (37%) and the on Central route there were 24,193 registered arrivals (18%).