Highlights
The number of refugee arrivals from averaged 7,500/day. Registration capacities were stepped up to over 8,000 persons/day in Preševo and 500/day elsewhere. As at 2 November, 349,766 intentions to seek asylum were registered in 2015.
Due to greatly increased registration capacities the police registered 180,307 asylum seekers in October as compared to 51,048 in September. Almost half of all registrations for the year were thus undertaken in October alone. 99,714 were male adults, 28,367 female adults, 33,819 male children, and 19,430 female children. The number of children rose to 29.5% in October. 93.5% of claimants originated from refugee-producing countries.
Refugees and migrants continued to arrive into Serbia from Bulgaria, with an average of 200 asylum-seekers arriving daily across the entire stretch of this border.