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Overview of statistical practice (1)
Statistical information is published by the asylum authority – Ministry of Interior (MoI), within the Department of Asylum and Migration Policy (OAMP). Until 2023 statistics used to be published every month. Between 2023 and 2025 they were available only at the beginning of each year, always for the preceding year (e.g., statistics on 2024 were only made available in early 2025). From 2026, the statistics are again available on the monthly basis.
In the past years, the MoI published also statistics regarding the appeal procedure (i.e., persons in the proceedings, appeals lodged – with and without suspensive effect, negative decisions, proceeding discontinued, cases referred back to the MoI, cases referred back to regional court from the SAC, number of cassation complaints, negative decisions of the SAC, proceeding discontinued by the SAC, cases referred back to the MoI by the SAC, cases referred back to the regional court). For 2024, these numbers are available here and here. For 2025, these statistics were not available at the time of writing this report.
For 2024, all the statistics were published here. For 2025, all the statistics are available here. Monthly statistics are provided by the OAMP only to the UNHCR, but these are not published. It is, however, possible to request UNHCR or the OAMP to provide the statistics.
Statistics for 2025 are available regarding:
- Number of Applications for International Protection by Year 1993–2025
- Number of Applications for International Protection by Month in 2025
- Applications for International Protection in 2025
- Applications for International Protection in 2025 by Place of Submission
- Ministry of the Interior Decisions on International Protection in 2025
- Applications for Ministry of the Interior Decisions on Extension of Subsidiary Protection in 2025
- Number of Participants in International Protection Proceedings at the Beginning and End of 2025
- Number of Persons Granted Asylum Status as of 31 December 2025
- Number of Persons Granted Subsidiary Protection as of 31 December 2025
- Dublin Procedure by Nationality of Foreign Nationals in 2025
- Dublin Procedure by EU Member States in 2025
Applications and granting of protection status at first instance: figures for year 2025 (1)
| Applicants in 2025 (2) | Pending at
end of 2025 |
Total decisions in 2025 (3) | Total in merit decisions | Total rejection (5) | In merit rejection (4) | Refugee status (6) | Subsidiary protection | Humanitarian protection[1] | ||
| Total | 1,197 | 627 | 1,222 | 768 | 1,025 | 571 | 70 | 127 | 7 | |
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Breakdown by countries of origin of the total numbers
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| Vietnam | 210 | 40 | 208 | 140 | 207 | 139 | 1 | 0 | N/A | |
| Ukraine | 172 | 125 | 144 | 108 | 54 | 18 | 4 | 86 | N/A | |
| Uzbekistan | 132 | 32 | 79 | 31 | 78 | 30 | 1 | 0 | N/A | |
| Moldova | 86 | 14 | 90 | 63 | 89 | 62 | 0 | 1 | N/A | |
| Russia | 65 | 117 | 114 | 80 | 89 | 55 | 14 | 11 | N/A | |
| Turkey | 62 | 26 | 71 | 30 | 69 | 28 | 2 | 0 | N/A | |
| Georgia | 41 | 8 | 42 | 27 | 42 | 27 | 0 | 0 | N/A | |
| Kazakhstan | 35 | 23 | 35 | 25 | 34 | 24 | 1 | 0 | N/A | |
| Nigeria | 30 | 23 | 29 | 18 | 28 | 17 | 0 | 1 | N/A | |
| Syria | 27 | 21 | 19 | 5 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 4 | N/A | |
| Other | 337 | 197 | 391 | 241 | 320 | 170 | 47 | 24 | N/A | |
Source: Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic, Department for Asylum and Migration Policy, Decisions of the MoI on international protection in 2025, available here; Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic, Department for Asylum and Migration Policy, Applications for international protection in 2025, available here.
Note 1: statistics on applicants and pending concern people, including children and dependents. The rest of the columns concern number of decisions.
Note 2: ‘Applicants in 2025’ refers to the total number of applicants, and not only to first-time applicants.
Note 3: Statistics on decisions cover the decisions taken throughout the year, regardless of whether they concern applications lodged that year or in previous years.
Note 4: ‘In merit rejection’ includes the following decisions: (a) in-merit rejections of international protection applications; and (b) applications rejected as manifestly unfounded. It does not include inadmissibility decisions. Rejection as manifestly unfounded is a decision on the merits, adopted in a sort of accelerated procedure and, therefore, is not a type of inadmissibility decision.
Note 5: ‘Total rejection’ includes the following decisions: (a) in merit rejections of international protection applications; (b) applications rejected as manifestly unfounded; and (c) decisions on the discontinuation of the asylum procedure.
Note 6: ‘Refugee status’ does not include humanitarian protection granted in a form of humanitarian asylum.
Applications and granting of protection status at first instance: rates for year 2025
| Overall rejection rate (2) (4) | In merit rejection rate (1) (3) (4) | Overall protection rate (2) (4) | In merit protection rate (1) (3) (4) | Refugee rate (1) (4) | Subsidiary
protection rate (1) (4) |
Humanitarian
protection rate (1) (4) |
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| Total | 83.9% | 74.3% | 16.1% | 25.7% | 9.1% | 16.5% | 0.9% |
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Breakdown by countries of origin of the total numbers, for the 10 nationalities with the highest numbers of applications
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| Vietnam | 99.5% | 99.3% | 0.5% | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.0% | N/A |
| Ukraine | 37.5% | 16.7% | 62.5% | 83.3% | 3.7% | 79.6% | N/A |
| Uzbekistan | 98.7% | 96.8% | 1.3% | 3.2% | 3.2% | 0.0% | N/A |
| Moldova | 98.9% | 98.4% | 1.1% | 1.6% | 0.0% | 1.6% | N/A |
| Russia | 78.1% | 68.8% | 21.9% | 31.3% | 17.5% | 13.8% | N/A |
| Turkey | 97.2% | 93.3% | 2.8% | 6.7% | 6.7% | 0.0% | N/A |
| Georgia | 100.0% | 100.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | N/A |
| Kazakhstan | 97.1% | 96.0% | 2.9% | 4.0% | 4.0% | 0.0% | N/A |
| Nigeria | 96.6% | 94.4% | 3.4% | 5.6% | 0.0% | 5.6% | N/A |
| Syria | 78.9% | 20.0% | 21.1% | 80.0% | 0.0% | 80.0% | N/A |
Source: Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic, Department for Asylum and Migration Policy, Decisions of the MoI on international protection in 2025, available here; Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic, Department for Asylum and Migration Policy, Applications for international protection in 2025, available here.
Note 1: These rates are calculated based on in merit decisions only, excluding non in merit rejections.
Note 2: These rates are calculated based on total decisions.
Note 3: ‘In merit rejection rate’ and ‘in merit protection rate’ include exclusively decisions taken on the merit and exclude all inadmissibility and other procedural decisions.
Gender/age breakdown of the total number of applicants in 2025
| Adults | Children | ||
| Accompanied | Unaccompanied | ||
| Number | 1,109 | 88 | 0 |
| Percentage | 92.6 % | 7.4 % | 0 % |
| Men | Women | |
| Number | 975 | 222 |
| Percentage | 81.5 % | 18.5 % |
Source: Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic, Department for Asylum and Migration Policy, Applications for international protection in 2025, available here.
Note: The gender breakdown (Men/Women) applies to all applicants, not only adults.
First instance and appeal decision rates in 2025:
It should be noted that, during the same year, the first instance and appeal authorities handle different caseloads. Thus, the decisions below do not concern the same applicants.
| First instance | Appeal | |||
| Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | |
| Total number of decisions | 1,222 | 100 % | Not available | Not available |
| Positive decisions | 197 | 16.12 % | ||
| ● Refugee status | 70 | 5.73 % | ||
| ● Subsidiary protection | 127 | 10.39 % | ||
| ● Other | N/A | N/A | ||
| Negative decisions[2] | 1,025 | 83.88 % | ||
Source: Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic, Department for Asylum and Migration Policy, Decisions of the MoI on international protection in 2025, available here.
[1] Numbers of total decisions and total in merit decisions do not include humanitarian protection. Numbers of asylum seekers who received humanitarian protection are not publicly available. Based on the information provided by the OAMP, in 2025, 7 persons were given humanitarian protection in a form of humanitarian asylum. They included nationals of Ukraine, Vietnam, Russia and Cuba. After 1 October 2025, it is no longer possible to grant humanitarian asylum.
[2] This number includes in merit negative decisions (international protection not granted and applications rejected as manifestly unfounded) as well as procedural decision on discontinuation of the proceedings.