Small boats, counted daily.
Small boats, counted daily. Who arrives, what happens next, and what the official count can and can't tell you.
9 figures, each with its official source.
Summed from the official daily time-series ODS. Provisional; below the 2025 same-period pace. The cumulative series updates a little less often than the single most-recent-day figure, so this window can end a few days earlier than the latest recorded day.
Single days are volatile (largest 2026 day was 710 on 15 Jun; many days are 0). The daily feed updates this automatically.
Boat numbers are falling while people-per-boat rises.
On 672 boats. +13% on 2024.
On 695 boats.
Up from ~7 in 2018, dangerous overcrowding, not more boats.
79,589 of 132,894 decided small-boat claims were granted, i.e. the majority are found to be genuine refugees at first decision.
Confirmed deaths on the Migration Observatory basis; counts differ by source and method.