Greece also has among the highest number of expulsions. In 2012, it issued 84,705 expulsion orders, a slight decrease from 2011 (88,820). The numbers used to be much higher. In 2009 and 2010, 126,132 and 132,525 persons, respectively, were ordered to leave Greece (Eurostat website). In 2005, the government issued 40,649 expulsion decisions and removed 21,219 persons from the territory (Chindea et al. 2008, p.42). 19