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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.
Applications and granting of protection status at first instance: 2019
|
|
Applicants in 2019* |
Pending at end 2019 |
Refugee status |
Subsidiary protection |
Humanitarian protection |
Rejection |
Refugee rate |
Subs. Prot. rate |
Hum. Prot. rate |
Rejection rate |
|
Total |
22,533 |
Not available |
2,455 |
1,830 |
560 |
8,095 |
18.9% |
14.1% |
4.3% |
62.5% |
|
Breakdown by countries of origin of the total numbers
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|
Syria |
3,675 |
: |
850 |
825 |
10 |
475 |
39.3% |
38.1% |
0.4% |
21.9% |
|
Nigeria |
2,102 |
: |
10 |
0 |
0 |
200 |
4.7% |
0% |
0% |
95% |
|
Iran |
1,534 |
: |
265 |
10 |
100 |
580 |
27.7% |
1 % |
10.4% |
60.7% |
|
Turkey |
1,251 |
: |
600 |
35 |
285 |
100 |
58.8% |
3.4% |
27.9% |
9.8% |
|
Algeria |
1,211 |
: |
0 |
0 |
0 |
520 |
0% |
0% |
0% |
100% |
|
Moldova |
1,207 |
: |
0 |
0 |
0 |
430 |
0% |
0% |
0% |
100% |
|
Morocco |
1,062 |
: |
10 |
0 |
5 |
605 |
1.6% |
0% |
0.8% |
97.5% |
|
Unknown |
870 |
: |
120 |
20 |
15 |
205 |
33.3% |
5.5% |
4.1% |
56.9% |
|
Yemen |
645 |
: |
20 |
405 |
5 |
35 |
4.3% |
87% |
1% |
7.5% |
|
Iraq |
621 |
: |
50 |
65 |
15 |
645 |
6.4% |
8.3% |
1.9% |
83% |
Source: Eurostat. Note that the number of applicants concerns first time applicants and “rejection” covers inadmissibility decisions in Eurostat data.
Gender/age breakdown of the total number of applicants*: 2019
|
|
Number |
Percentage |
|
Total number of asylum applicants |
22.533 |
|
|
Men |
16.055 |
71% |
|
Women |
6.425 |
28.5% |
|
Children (<18) |
5.185 |
23% |
|
Unaccompanied children |
1.046 |
4.6% |
Source: Eurostat; IND Asylum Trends.
* It concerns the number of first time applicants.
Comparison between first instance and appeal decision rates: 2019
The number of appeal decisions is not available.