Nearly 1,000 migrants died during the first six months of 2022 in an attempt to reach the coast of Spain through the southern border. This was revealed by a report by the Spanish NGO Caminando Fronteras monitoring the first half of 2022. Among the dead are 118 women and 41 children. The months of January and June were the busiest; lethal.

Most of the victims were died on the Canary Islands route (800), 2 more in the Strait of Gibraltar, 35 in the Alboran Sea and 101 on the route from Algeria. 87.83% of the victims are disappeared at sea and their bodies were not recovered.

In total, 18 boats have disappeared and there have been 44 shipwrecks which, according to Caminando Fronteras, have occurred, mainly because; search and rescue vehicles were not activated or not sent quickly, due to a lack of coordination between Spain and Morocco.