ITALY WEEKLY SNAPSHOT (23 AUG - 29 AUG 2021)

ITALY WEEKLY SNAPSHOT (23 AUG - 29 AUG 2021)

Sea arrivals1

38,519 18,514 +108% Sea Arrivals in 2021 by disembarkation site year-to-date arrivals year-to-date arrivals in 2020 9,397 4,501 +109% month-to-date arrivals month-to-date arrivals in 2020

Estimated # of arrivals during the last seven days 3,128 Top(Based 10 on arrivalsmost or common registration figurescountries collected of by origin UNHCR staff) 1 JanMon, - 30 23 JulyAug 2021 978Same period in 2020 Tue, 24 Aug 2021 677 Tunisia 24% Tunisia 41% Santa Maria di Leuca Wed, 25 Aug 2021 77 Sant'Antioco Crotone BangladeshThu, 26 Aug 202114% Bangladesh106 16% Fri, 27 Aug 2021 123 Roccella Ionica Egypt 8% Côte d'Ivoire 6% Trapani Sat, 28 Aug 2021 786 Algeria Côte d'Ivoire 8% Algeria 5% Turkey Sun, 29 Aug 2021 381 719 4,264 Guinea 5% Sudan 4% Augusta Porto Greece Eritrea 5% Morocco 3% Empedocle Pozzallo 493 Pantelleria Egypt Islamic… 5% Pakistan 3% Tunisia 603 Sudan 4% Egypt 2% 14,185 Iran 4% Somalia 2% Libya Lampedusa 18,255 = 1,000 sea arrivals Iraq 3% Guinea 2%

Others 20% Others 14%

Daily sea arrivals last week (23 Aug - 29 Aug 2021) Sea arrivals by gender and age, Jan-Jul 2021

978 8% - Women 786 71% - Men 677 4% - Children (accompanied) 381 123 77 106 18% - Children (unaccompanied)

23 Aug 24 Aug 25 Aug 26 Aug 27 Aug 28 Aug 29 Aug

Weekly sea arrivals last year 3,128 2,799 2,634 2,846 2,382 2,324 2,428 2,060 2,488 1,821 1,880 1,696 1,439 1,675 1,530 1,557 1,474 1,218 1,299 1,020 891 1,001 851 674 1,126 799 861 647 646 550 659 687 615 651 597 638 682

Asylum applications, Asylum applications by month, First-Instance RSD Decisions, 2021 Jan-Jun 2021 vs Jan-Jun 2020 Applications are not necessarily lodged by new arrivals Jan-Jun 2021 2021 vs 2020 2020 1951 Convention Refugee 20,588 13%

Subsidiary Protection

3,865 22%

3,730

3,714

3,666 3,655

11,699 3,574

3,306

3,245 3,199

3,088 57% 3,025 Complementary Forms of National 2 2,270 Protection

1,958 9%

Rejection3

1,297

1,177

1,115

1,097 149 Total first-instance decisions (Jan-Jun 2021) 20,385 Jan-Jun 2021 Jan-Jun 2020 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total pending cases (as of Jun 2021) 4 53,695 1 The charts above are based on figures from the Italian Ministry of Interior and UNHCR estimates. All figures are provisional and subject to ch ange. Please note that, in addition to sea arrivals, Italy also receives land arrivals and air arrivals. The present document focuses on sea arrivals only, as per official figures provided by the Italian Ministry of Interior. 2 'Complementary forms of national protection' include decisions granting authorization to stay for humanitarian reasons under national law to persons who are not eligible for international protection, but nonetheless at riskof violation of articles 3 and 8 of the ECHR in case of return 3 'Rejection' includes all cases closed, including decisions not taken on the merits, such as inadmissibility decisions and no -shows. 4 Source: Ministry of Interior. This includes pending cases at first and second instance.

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) data.unhcr.org/mediterranean