Europe — Mixed Migration Flows in the Mediterranean, Monthly Compilation (September 2017)

Arrivals to Europe through the Mediterranean in the first nine months of 2017 are lower when compared to the same period in 2016. As of 30 September 2017, national authorities in Greece, Italy, Cyprus, Bulgaria and Spain registered 146,287 newly arrived migrants mostly from the Middle East, Africa, South and Central Asia, a 55% decrease when compared to 322,299 recorded during the same period in 2016.