The goal of this “article” (simply functional) is to give an objective overview, updated daily, of the arrivals of people on the move in Italy by sea.
Italy (together with Spain, Greece, Malta, Cyprus and Bulgaria) is one of the countries defined as a “first arrival” on the migration routes to Europe.
In particular, together with Malta, it is the first arrival country on the Central Mediterranean route, one of the routes with the highest flow and the highest number of deaths and missing people.
Let us look, for example, at the data for 2025.
In 2025, 158003 people arrived in Europe via the four main migration routes (central Mediterranean, eastern Mediterranean, western Mediterranean and western African Atlantic): 66562 via the central Mediterranean route.
Of these people, 66316 disembarked in Italy, 40% of all arrivals.
In 2025, 3358 people died or went missing on the same migration routes: 1330 on the central Mediterranean route, about 40%.
This means that 4 out of 10 people died or went missing while attempting to reach Europe by disembarking in Italy.
(For more information: People dead and missing crossing Europe since January 2014 to date...)
The following chart illustrates the monthly trend in total arrivals and unaccompanied minors (MSNA acronym in Italian), while the table below shows the annual data and the percentage of MSNAs compared to arrivals.