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Overview of statistical practice
Detailed statistics are not available in the annual reports published on the website of the General Inspectorate for Immigration (IGI) Directorate for Asylum and Integration (DAI); they were provided based on the official request of the AIDA expert.
Applications and granting of protection status at first instance: figures for 2024 (1)
Regarding data collection, the system managed by the General Inspectorate for Immigration allows for obtaining statistical information based on the following criteria:
- Statistics on applicants and pending concern people including children and dependents;
- Applicants in 2024 refers to the total number of applicants and not only to first-time applicants;
- Total decisions refer to decisions to admit and to reject the asylum applications (the IGI do not uses as criteria in merit rejection/in merit admission);
- Total number of persons who were granted refugee status, subsidiary protection by IGI-DAI;
- “- “indicates that the authorities did not provide this information.
These numbers present slight divergences with the data presented in Eurostat, which are also provided by the authorities, but these do not lead to any substantial changes. This may be due to correction of data sent to Eurostat, as it is published later than when the expert received the data presented below from the authorities.
| Country of origin (1) | Applicants
in 2024 (2) |
First-time asylum applicants in 2024 (IGI-DAI) (3) |
First-time Applicants in 2024[1] (Eurostat) (4) |
Pending applicants
at end of 2024 (5) |
Total decisions in 2024 (6) | Total rejection (7) | Refugee status | Subsidiary protection |
| Total | 2,467 | 2,344 | 2,265 | 393 | 1,932 | 1,208 | 242 | 482 |
| Breakdown by main countries of origin of the total numbers | ||||||||
| Syria | 785 | 759 | 715 | 124 | 605 | 305 | 30 | 270 |
| Iraq | 215 | 232 | 205 | 45 | 140 | 105 | 15 | 20 |
| Nepal | 210 | 206 | 205 | N/a | 200 | 200 | 0 | 0 |
| Bangladesh | 125 | 126 | 125 | N/a | 110 | 105* | 0* | 0* |
| Palestinian Authority in Occupied Territories | 120 | 117 | 120 | N/a | 145 | 5 | 80 | 60 |
| Ethiopia | 115 | N/a | 95 | 24 | 90 | 90 | 0 | 0 |
| Sudan | 95 | N/a | 90 | N/a | 90* | 10* | 5* | 80* |
| Pakistan | 80 | N/a | 75 | N/a | 85 | 80 | 5 | 0 |
| Türkiye | 75 | N/a | 75 | N/a | 80 | 65 | 10 | 0 |
| Sri Lanka | 55 | N/a | 55 | N/a | 55 | 55 | 0 | 0 |
*Source: Information provided by the General Inspectorate for Immigration, 23 January 2025 and extracted from the Eurostat database, available here.
Note 1: statistics on applicants and pending concern people, including children and dependents bases on their country of origin. The rest of the columns concern a number of decisions as that is usually the (only) data available.
Note 2: “Applicants in year” refers to the total number of applicants, and not only to first-time applicants.
Note 3: Statistics regarding first time asylum applicants according to IGI-DAI.
Note 4: Statistics regarding first time asylum applicants from Eurostat website – information on Romania 2024.
Note 5: Statistics regarding pending asylum application at the end of 2024 according to IGI-DAI.
Note 6: Statistics regarding total decision provided for the asylum application according to IGI-DAI (total) and Eurostat (national breakdown). Statistics on decisions cover the decisions taken throughout the year, regardless of whether they concern applications lodged that year or in previous years.
Note 7: Statistics regarding total decision rejecting asylum application according to IGI-DAI. Statistics on decisions cover the decisions taken throughout the year, regardless of whether they concern applications lodged that year or in previous years.
Note 8: IGI-DAI does not provide a full numerical breakdown by main countries, but only lists them by name. While both IGI-DAI and Eurostat offer data on first-time asylum applications, the figures differ and remain incomplete.
* Some figures may not reflect the exact number of cases, as Eurostat rounds data to the nearest multiple of five (e.g. 5, 10, 15). As a result, small variations may not be visible in the reported values.
Applications and granting of protection status at first instance: rates for 2024
The information in the table below is calculated by ECRE based on data provided by the General inspectorate for Immigration presented in the table above.
| Overall protection rate | Refugee rate | Subsidiary
protection rate |
Overall rejection rate | |
| Total | 37.46% | 12.52% | 24.94% | 62.54% |
| Syria | 49.2% | 4.6% | 44.6% | 50.4% |
| Iraq | 25% | 10.7% | 14.3% | 75% |
| Nepal | 0% | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| Bangladesh | 0%* | 0%* | 0%* | 95.5%* |
| Palestinian Authority in Occupied Territories | 96.6% | 55.2% | 41.4% | 3.4% |
| Ethiopia | 0% | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| Sudan | 94.5%* | 5.6%* | 88.9%* | 11%* |
| Pakistan | 5.9% | 5.9% | 0% | 94.1% |
| Türkiye | 12.5%* | 12.5%* | 0%* | 81%* |
| Sri Lanka | 0% | 0% | 0% | 100% |
Source: The recognition rates are calculated by the authors of the report, based on the table above.
* Some figures may not reflect the exact number of cases, as Eurostat rounds data to the nearest multiple of five (e.g. 5, 10, 15). As a result, small variations may not be visible in the reported values.
Gender/age breakdown of the total number of applicants: 2024
| Adults | Children | ||
| Accompanied | Unaccompanied | ||
| Number | 1,954 | 463 | 50 |
| Percentage | 82.78% | 15.54% | 1.68% |
| Men | Women | |
| Number | 492 | 1,975 |
| Percentage | 19.94% | 80.06% |
| Unaccompanied Minor Asylum Seekers | |
| Gen | TOTAL |
| F | 1 |
| M | 49 |
| Minor Asylum Seekers | |
| Gen | TOTAL |
| F | 165 |
| M | 348 |
Source: Information provided by the General Inspectorate for Immigration, 23 January 2025.
Note: The gender breakdown (Men/Women) applies to all applicants, not only adults.
First instance and appeal decision rates: 2024
There were 1208 rejections of asylum applications in first instance in 2024.[2] The only data received indicated that there were 375 negative decisions, with the appeals confirming the IGI’s rulings.[3] Moreover, there were 53 decisions establishing the termination of the form of protection granted (27 decisions for refugee status and 26 decisions for subsidiary protection).[4]
[1] Eurostat, Asylum applications – annual statistics, data extracted 14 March 2025, available here.
[2] Information provided by the General Inspectorate for Immigration, 23 January 2025.
[3] Information provided by the General Inspectorate for Immigration, 23 January 2025.
[4] Information provided by the General Inspectorate for Immigration, 23 January 2025.