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Italy's migrant crisis pales in comparison with refugees fleeing the unrest in Libya. According to the latest figures from the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, 431,000 people have fled the violence in Libya since it began in February. Of those, 215,000 went to Tunisia, 172,000 to Egypt, and 23,000 to Niger.
At the beginning of this month, between 7,700 and 8,500 were still stranded at the border with Tunisia and around 3,500 at the border with Egypt.
Tunisia has a population of 10.4 million and a gross domestic product of €6,061.33 per capita. Italy, by contrast, with a population of 61m, has a GDP per capita of €21,306.35.
Asylum applications
According to figures published in March by Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, Italy received 10,050 asylum applications last year, and Greece roughly the same number. France had 51,595 and Germany 48,490.
Measured as a share of the population, Italy – with 40 asylum applications per million inhabitants – is not even in the top ten; Cyprus tops the list with 1,320 asylum applications per million inhabitants, followed by Sweden (990) and Belgium (765).
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