Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Country: Bangladesh, Côte d'Ivoire, Egypt, Eritrea, Gambia, Guinea, Italy, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, World
Between 1 January and 31 August 2016, 18,537 children arrived to Italy by sea: 9 out of 10 children arrived unaccompanied (16,863). UASC thus account for some 15% of all sea arrivals in the above period, an increase of around 116% compared to the same period of 2015, when 7% of all those arrived by sea were UASC.