25% child refugees in EU arrived without parents
According to reports, around 25% of 3,68,000 child refugees who arrived in the European Union travelled without parents or guardians. Half of the unaccompanied minors were from Afghanistan, and one in seven was Syrian. Sweden took in 35,000 "geographically orphaned" refugees, the highest by an EU country in 2015. Notably, 30% of the EU asylum seekers in 2015 were minors.