Eurostat published that 3 out of 10 first-time asylum applicants are children

In 2020, 129 630 children lodged a first-time application for asylum in the EU, which is 31% of the total number of first-time asylum applications recorded in the EU. Among those children, 10% were unaccompanied minors. The share of children in the total number of first-time asylum applicants was the highest in Germany and the number of unaccompanied minors in the total number of first-time asylum applicants was the highest in Bulgaria. Syrian was the main citizenship of the minor first-time asylum applicants in 2020 while the top country of citizenship of asylum applicants considered to be unaccompanied minors was Afghanistan. 

The full explanation of the statistics can be found here.
 

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