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Refugees and migrants spent over €1.3 billion since 2000 to reach Europe
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Methodological notes
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The estimates on the amount paid by refugees and migrants is based on the number of "detections" reported by European Member States to FRONTEX (before 2008: data from Clandestino which is compatible with said routes) and the median of various sources mentioning the prices of a crossing on a FRONTEX-defined route.

A 2011 report on Turkish refugees points out that one in 7 refugee or migrant do not pay for the journey (other accounts, like the Red Cross data set, show a higer rate of paying passengers - 97%). Therefore, a 15% discount was applied to the final results for all routes.

Prices are in 2014 euros (prices before 2014 have been corrected for inflation).
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It vastly undercounts the real amount:
* Thousands of refugees and migrants come by air with forged documents, at a price ranging from 5000 to 20000 EUR.
* The amounts count only FRONTEX-routes and not the routes needed to reach the points of departure for the last leg of the journey (e.g the trip to Tripoli), which costs several hundreds USD.
* Data on detections is incomplete in years prior to 2008.
* Using the median limits the risk of including high amounts. However, numerous reports of Syrians paying up to 10,000 EUR per person to cross the Med exist.
* A person "detected" (i.e who reached Europe) can have done the journey several times if he or she was pushed back before.
* Over 29,000 have died, even though they paid.
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Make sure to read the entire Methodology as well
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