{
  "study": {
    "slug": "unaccompanied-minors-in-the-eu",
    "title": "45.9% Fewer Children Sought Asylum Alone in the EU Than a Year Earlier",
    "url": "https://www.silverdatalab.com/studies/unaccompanied-minors-in-the-eu"
  },
  "table": 1,
  "language": "en",
  "caption": "Children applying for asylum without a responsible adult, per million inhabitants, 2025",
  "valueHeading": "applicants per million inhabitants (derived)",
  "selection": "Three highest and three lowest of the 27 Member States, with the EU figure for reference.",
  "decimals": 1,
  "referenceLabel": "EU figure",
  "note": "Derived by Silver Data Lab: each 2025 count from tps00194 divided by the population on 1 January 2025 from tps00001, per million inhabitants; the EU figure is Eurostat's EU count over Eurostat's EU population, not a sum computed here. Counts are rounded to the nearest five, so the zeros of Czechia and Estonia stand for at most two applicants each, and Hungary and Slovakia both publish 5, which leaves the order between them to the rounding. Belgium's count is provisional, and the EU population is estimated and provisional.",
  "derived": [
    "gap_to_reference"
  ],
  "flags": "source_flag carries the publisher's own status letters on the cell: p provisional, e estimated, b break in time series, d definition differs, u low reliability, i imputed",
  "source": {
    "publisher": "Eurostat",
    "dataset": "Asylum applicants considered to be unaccompanied minors - annual data",
    "code": "tps00194",
    "filters": {
      "freq": "A",
      "citizen": "EXT_EU27_2020",
      "sex": "T",
      "unit": "PER",
      "age": "TOTAL"
    },
    "extractedOn": "2026-10-22",
    "lastUpdated": "2026-08-27",
    "doi": "https://doi.org/10.2908/tps00194",
    "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/tps00194/default/table?lang=en"
  },
  "licence": {
    "analysis": "CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "statistics": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/about-us/policies/copyright"
  },
  "rows": [
    {
      "rank": 1,
      "name": "Greece",
      "value": 283.9,
      "gap_to_reference": 244.2,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 2,
      "name": "Cyprus",
      "value": 213.6,
      "gap_to_reference": 173.9,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 3,
      "name": "Netherlands",
      "value": 194.5,
      "gap_to_reference": 154.8,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": null,
      "name": "European Union",
      "value": 39.7,
      "gap_to_reference": null,
      "reference": true,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 4,
      "name": "Hungary",
      "value": 0.5,
      "gap_to_reference": -39.2,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 5,
      "name": "Czechia",
      "value": 0,
      "gap_to_reference": -39.7,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 6,
      "name": "Estonia",
      "value": 0,
      "gap_to_reference": -39.7,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    }
  ]
}