30. 2015 年头 9 个月，超过 20 万儿童在欧洲联盟各成员国申请庇护。24 其中一些没有到达其目的地。同一年，据信近 700 名儿童穿越地中海时溺亡。25 每天约有 700 名儿童抵达欧洲，其中许多人疲惫不堪，有些需要医疗帮助。26 在前南斯拉夫的马其顿共和国，无人陪伴儿童人数增加了六倍，2015 年 8 月为 932 人，该年 10 月增加到 5,676 人。2015 年头几个月，3,000 多名无人陪伴移民儿童在瑞典申请庇护，27 预计到 2015 年底将有 3 万多人在德国申请庇护。
30. In the first nine months of 2015, more than 200,000 children applied for asylum in European Union member States.24 Some of them did not reach their destination. In the same year, nearly 700 children are believed to have died crossing the Mediterranean. 25 Approximately 700 children arrive daily in Europe, many of them exhausted and distressed and some in need of medical assistance.26 In the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the number of unaccompanied children increased six-fold, from 932 in August 2015 to 5,676 in October of that year. In the first months of 2015, more than 3,000 unaccompanied migrant children applied for asylum in Sweden alone, 27 and more than 30,000 were expected to apply in Germany by the end of 2015.