At least 13,600 unaccompanied children arrived in the EU countries in 2020, including 2,300 Syrian children, the European Statistics Bureau said.
The share of Syrian children out of the total number of underage refugee children reached 17%, coming in the second place after Afghan refugees.
60% of unaccompanied Syrian children applied for protection in Germany, and their number reached 500 children, while 400 of them chose Austria and the Netherlands.
According to the data, the number of asylum seekers granted by the European Union countries with protection status reached 281,000, of whom about 75,000 were Syrians.
The number of asylum applications for minors decreased by 4% during 2020, compared to 2019, when the number reached 14,100 applications while the number of underage refugees is on a decreasing trend after it reached its peak in 2015 with 92,000.
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