{
  "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": 2,
  "language": "en",
  "caption": "Change in the number of children applying for asylum without a responsible adult, 2024 to 2025",
  "valueHeading": "applicants (derived)",
  "selection": "The two largest rises and the three largest falls among the 27 Member States. The count rose in five, fell in 19 and was published unchanged in three.",
  "decimals": 0,
  "referenceLabel": null,
  "note": "Derived by Silver Data Lab: the published 2025 count minus the published 2024 count, both from tps00194; because each count is rounded to the nearest five, a difference can be out by up to four. The EU total fell by 15,230, and Germany's fall makes up 55.3% of it.",
  "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": "Latvia",
      "value": 150,
      "gap_to_reference": null,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 2,
      "name": "Spain",
      "value": 95,
      "gap_to_reference": null,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 3,
      "name": "Greece",
      "value": -1765,
      "gap_to_reference": null,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 4,
      "name": "Bulgaria",
      "value": -2025,
      "gap_to_reference": null,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 5,
      "name": "Germany",
      "value": -8420,
      "gap_to_reference": null,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    }
  ]
}