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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 2025 (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 2025 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 2025 (2) |
First-time asylum applicants in 2025 (IGI-DAI) (3) |
Access to new asylum procedure (IGI-DAI) (4) |
Pending applicants
at end of 2025 (5) |
Total decisions in 2025 (6) | Total rejection (7) | Refugee status | Subsidiary protection |
| Total | 1,199 | 1,163 | 107 | 297 | 1,190 | 565 | 309 | 306 |
| Breakdown by main countries of origin of the total numbers | ||||||||
| Syria | 300 | 277 | 31 | 79 | N/A | 63 | 80 | 74 |
| Palestine | 182 | 181 | N/A | N/A | N/A | 70 | 156 | 152 |
| Iraq | 110 | 108 | 10 | 36 | N/A | 20 | 11 | 16 |
| Sudan | 86 | 84 | N/A | N/A | N/A | 15 | 4 | 5 |
| Afghanistan | 69 | 69 | N/A | 19 | N/A | 30 | 21 | 28 |
| Ukraine | 37 | N/A | N/A | 8 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Bangladesh | 36 | N/A | N/A | 16 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Russian Federation | 33 | N/A | N/A | 7 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Türkiye | 31 | N/A | 6 | 10 | N/A | 15 | 4 | 6 |
| Iran | 22 | N/A | 11 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Ethiopia | N/A | N/A | N/A | 12 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Somalia | N/A | N/A | N/A | 10 | N/A | 17 | 5 | 6 |
| Egypt | N/A | N/A | N/A | 8 | N/A | 14 | 4 | 3 |
| Nigeria | N/A | N/A | 8 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Cameroon | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 17 | 6 | 9 |
| Pakistan | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 13 | 4 | 2 |
*Source: Information provided by the General Inspectorate for Immigration, 2 March 2026[1] and collected through Eurostat, migr_asydcfsta.
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 2025.
Note 5: Statistics regarding pending asylum application at the end of 2025 according to IGI-DAI.
Note 6: Statistics regarding total decision according to Eurostat. 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 decisions rejecting asylum application according to Eurostat.
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 2025
The information in the table below is calculated by ECRE based on Eurostat data. It should be noted that several discrepancies exist compared to data provided by the General Inspectorate for Immigration.
| Overall protection rate | Refugee rate | Subsidiary
protection rate |
Overall rejection rate | |
| Total | 52.5% | 25.7% | 26.8% | 47.5% |
| Syria | 74.6% | 23.8% | 50.8% | 25.4% |
| Palestine | 97.2% | 83.3% | 13.9% | 2.8% |
| Iraq | 15.8% | 10.5% | 5.3% | 84.2% |
| Sudan | 94.1% | 5.9% | 88.2% | 5.9% |
| Afghanistan | 75% | 50% | 25% | 25% |
| Ukraine | 37.5% | 0% | 37/5% | 62.5% |
| Bangladesh | 0% | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| Russian Federation | 33.3% | 0% | 33.3% | 66.7% |
| Türkiye | 14.3% | 14.3% | 0% | 85.7% |
| Iran | 0% | 0% | 0% | 100% |
Source: The recognition rates are calculated by the authors of the report, based on data available on Eurostat – migr_asydcfsta.
Gender/age breakdown of the total number of applicants: 2025
| Adults | Children | ||
| Accompanied | Unaccompanied | ||
| Number | 1,199 | 356 | 34 |
| Percentage | 70.34% | 29.69% | 2.84% |
| Men | Women | |
| Number | 809 | 390 |
| Percentage | 67.47% | 32.53% |
| Unaccompanied Minor Asylum applicants | |
| Gen | TOTAL |
| F | 1 |
| M | 33 |
| Minor Asylum applicant | |
| Gen | TOTAL |
| F | 153 |
| M | 203 |
| Vulnerable asylum applicants per category | |||||||||||||||||
| Category | Minors | Unaccompanied minors | Pregnant women | Single parents with minor children | Persons with disabilities | People with mental health conditions or serious illnesses | Elderly | People who have been subjected to torture, rape or other serious forms of violence | Potential victims of trafficking | ||||||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | ||
| Number | 155 | 144 | 42 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 34 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 2 |
| Total number / category | 299 | 45 | 1 | 44 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 3 | ||||||||
| Total | 420 | ||||||||||||||||
Source: Information provided by the General Inspectorate for Immigration, 02 March 2026.
Note: The gender breakdown (Men/Women) applies to all applicants, not only adults.
According to IGI, 298 applicants were identified as vulnerable, while a breakdown by categories indicates a total of 420 instances of vulnerability. Applicants may fall under more than one vulnerability category.
First instance and appeal decision rates: 2025
In 2025, IGI-DAI did not provide a total number of rejections at first instance, but only partial data indicating 274 rejections on the merits for the main countries of origin, while no information was available on inadmissibility decisions or appeal outcomes.[2] A total of 265 appeals were lodged against negative first-instance decisions on applications for international protection.[3]
[1] These figures cannot be directly compared, as approval and rejection rates vary by country of origin. In addition, decisions issued in 2025 also include cases registered in late 2024, while some applications lodged at the end of 2025 will only be decided in 2026.
[2] Information provided by IGI-DAI, 02 March 2026.
[3] ibid.