The update indicated that some 157,000 third-country nationals were part of the fugitives, in what UN officials have described as Europe’s largest refugee crisis since World War II.
A spokesperson for the International Organization for Migration, Paul Dion, told a United Nations press briefing in Geneva on Tuesday that the statistics were based on numbers provided by national authorities.
Meanwhile, the UN refugee agency, which provides a more detailed census on the International Organization for Migration although it is based on similar data, reports that more than 1.8 million refugees have arrived in Poland.
UNHCR spokesman Matthew Saltmarsh said about 300,000 had moved from there to Western Europe, and noted that the vast majority of those fleeing were women and children.
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