35, 000 migrants landed on one Italian island in 2021: Five times the size of its normal population

Source: 35, 000 illegal migrants landed on the Italian island of Lampedusa in 2021, an alltime record for arrivals and a considerable increase over 2020. The 35, 000 migrants who landed in Lampedusa are more than five times the size of the islands population of approximately 6, 500 people. The new figure is also 15, 000 more than the 20, 000 migrants the island received in 2020, InfoMigrants reports.