Immigration / Routes

The routes

Frontex classifies six main migratory routes into the EU. Each follows a distinct geography, draws different origin countries, and rises and falls based on conditions on the ground — conflict, geopolitics, weather, smuggling-network shifts, and enforcement.

§B · Per-route trend · 2014–2024

The six lines tell six different stories.

All six routes plotted on the same axis (linear, persons). The Eastern Mediterranean peak of 2015 dominates the chart at 885k detections that single year — by far the largest single-route, single-year figure on record. After 2016 the chart redistributes across multiple smaller channels.