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Overview of statistical practice
The Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND) publishes Asylum Trends with statistics on asylum and family reunification applications on a monthly basis.[1] These do not indicate decisions on asylum applications, however. While this report provides some statistical information on the year 2022, various data was not made publicly available by the time of writing of this report.
Applications and granting of protection status at first instance: 2022
| Applicants in 2022 (1) | Pending at end 2022 | Total decisions | Refugee status | Subsidiary protection |
Humanitarian protection |
Rejection | Refugee rate | Sub. Prot. rate |
Hum. Prot. rate |
Rejection rate | |
| Total | 35,535 | Not available | 17,400 | 9,245 | 5,045 | 890 | 2,220 | 53,1% | 29% | 5,1% | 12,8% |
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Breakdown by countries of origin of the total numbers
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| Syria Arabic Republic | 12,648 | 6,360 | 3,790 | 2,280 | 75 | 215 | 59.6% | 35,8% | 1,2% | 3,4% | |
| Afghanistan | 2,732 | 2,460 | 2,295 | 105 | 35 | 25 | 93,3% | 4,2% | 1,4% | 1% | |
| Turkey | 2,648 | 2,045 | 1,595 | 0 | 395 | 55 | 78% | 0% | 19,3% | 2.7% | |
| Yemen | 2,428 | 1,245 | 45 | 1,180 | 5 | 10 | 3.6% | 94.8% | 0,4% | 0.8% | |
| Somalia | 1,457 | 640 | 40 | 435 | 20 | 145 | 6.2% | 68% | 3,1% | 22.6% | |
| Eritrea | 1,365 | 470 | 0 | 380 | 20 | 80 | 0% | 80.9% | 4,3% | 17% | |
| Algeria | 1,206 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 0% | 0% | 0% | 100% | |
| Unknown | 1,113 | 345 | 175 | 80 | 30 | 50 | 50.7% | 23.1% | 8,7% | 14.5% | |
| Ukraine | 1,060 | 15 | 5 | 10 | 0% | 0% | 33,3% | 66.7% | |||
Source: Eurostat.
* Statistics on decisions cover the decisions taken throughout the year, regardless of whether they concern applications lodged that year or in previous years.
* It should be noted that rejections include inadmissibility decisions.
(1) These numbers are first time applicants. The IND, in its publication on Asylum Trends for December 2022,[2] indicates that the total number of applicants was 47,991. It should be noted that the IND includes the number of applicants entering the asylum procedure because of family reunification in the total figure, together with those of first-time and subsequent applicants. The 5 most represented countries of origin in 2022, including family reunification cases, were Syria (19,989), Turkey (3.802), Afghanistan (2,945), Yemen (2,813) and Eritrea (1,939).
Gender/age breakdown of the total number of applicants*: 2022
| Number | Percentage | |
| Total number of applicants | 35,536 | |
| Men | 27,498 | 77.3% |
| Women | 8,000 | 22.5% |
| Children | 2,498 | 7% |
| Unaccompanied children | 4,207* | * |
Source: IND Asylum Trends, December 2022, available at: https://bit.ly/3lanW7u.
* The IND does not include unaccompanied minors in the total number of applicants.
Comparison between first instance and appeal decision rates: 2022
National authorities did not provide detailed statistics on second instance decisions at the time of writing of the report.
[1] IND, Asylum trends, available at: http://bit.ly/3YJwEXS.
[2] IND Asylum Trends for December 2022, available at: https://bit.ly/3lanW7u.