In a press release from 11 July 2024, Frontex provided key figures regarding the number of irregular border crossings into the European Union between January and June 2024. Among other key highlights:

• The Central Mediterranean route, which saw a decrease of 61 percent compared to last year, remained the most active route this year with 25.653 detections.
   
• The second most active migratory route in the first half of the year was the Eastern Mediterranean, where the number of arrivals increased by 75% to 24.999.
   
• The Western African route showed the highest increase of 174% to 19.636.
   
• The number of detections on the Western Balkan route continued to fall in the January-June period and was down 72% to just over 10.640.
   
• The Western Mediterranean route remained relatively stable with 5.654 irregular border crossings.
   
• The Eastern Land Border showed a very high rise of 148% to over 6.700.
   
• Finally, on the Channel route, the number of detections in the first six months of 2024 increased by 24% to reach 27.100.

For further details, including top nationalities detected on the routes, please read the press release from Frontex.