According to Eurostat, in 2020, 13 600 asylum applicants in the EU Member States were considered to be unaccompanied minors, down by 4% compared with 2019 when the number was 14 100.
Unaccompanied minors accounted for 10% of all asylum applicants aged less than 18 in the EU in 2020. The majority (88%) were males.
Afghan, Syrian and Pakistani were the main citizenships of unaccompanied minors seeking asylum.
The full explanation of the statistics can be found
here.
Source: Eurostat
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