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<p>2018 saw an 80 percent reduction, comapred to 2014 in the number of migrants crossing
the central Mediterranean from North Africa to Italy – from 119,000 in 2017 to 23,000
in 2018, according to UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) figures. The number
of fatalities on the central route has not reduced by the same rate. According to
UNHCR the proportion of dead and missing compared to the number of arrivals doubled
in 2018 to 5.6 percent from 2.4 percent in 2017. The largest proportion of migrants
crossing the Mediterranean from North Africa during 2018 continued to be from Libya,
although the proportion crossing from Tunisia increased during 2018. The European
Commission reports the Italian Ministry of Interior as stating that 56 percent of
migrants heading for Italy departed from Libya.</p>
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