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National reference metadata, produced by countries and released by Eurostat, are available in the European reference metadata for asylum applications. Applications (migr_asyapp)
Data series on decisions on asylum applications and resettlement contain statistical information based on Article 4 of the Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 with reference to:
Data are presented by country and aggregation for the European Union.
Data are rounded to the nearest 5.
The classification of codes on the reporting country (GEO), on the country of citizenship of asylum applicants (CITIZEN) and the country of previous residence (C_RESID) corresponds to the ISO 3166 code-list (3166-1 alpha-2) with the exception of:
| Classification |
Eurostat breakdown |
|---|---|
| Age |
0-13, 14-17, 18-34, 35-64, 65 and over, Unknown |
| Sex |
Male, Female, Unknown |
| Citizenship |
ISO 3166 alpha-2 |
| Status of minor |
Unaccompanied minor, Accompanied minor, Unknown, Not applicable |
| Decision |
Geneva Convention status (refugee status), Humanitarian status, Subsidiary protection status, Temporary protection status for decisions withdrawing and Geneva Convention status (refugee status), Subsidiary protection status, Other positive decisions, Unknown for resettled persons |
| Reason |
Revocation, Ending, Refusal to renew, Unknown |
| Country of previous residence |
ISO 3166 alpha-2 |
| Resettlement framework |
EU Resettlement Frameworks, Other, Unknown |
Asylum migration - international protection statistics.
Statistical concepts and definitions for decisions on asylum applications and resettlement are based on definitions in Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 862/2007, Article 2 of Directive 2011/95/EU and Directive 2013/32/EU.
First instance decision is a positive or negative decision considering applications for international protection as well as the grants of authorisations to stay for humanitarian reasons, including decisions under priority and accelerated procedures taken by administrative or judicial bodies in Member States.
Final decision is a positive or negative decisions considering applications for international protection as well as the grants of authorisations to stay for humanitarian reasons, including decisions under priority and accelerated procedures, in appeal or in review and which are no longer subject to remedy, taken by administrative or judicial bodies in Member States.
| Concepts | Definition |
|---|---|
| A04 Rejected applicants for international protection at first instance | Persons covered by first instance decisions rejecting applications for international protection, such as decisions considering applications as inadmissible or as unfounded and decisions under priority and accelerated procedures, taken by administrative or judicial bodies during the reference period. |
| A05 Persons granted refugee status at first instance | Persons covered by first instance decisions granting refugee status, taken by administrative or judicial bodies during the reference period. |
| A06 Persons granted subsidiary protection at first instance | Persons covered by first instance decisions granting subsidiary protection status, taken by administrative or judicial bodies during the reference period. |
| A07 Persons granted temporary protection at first instance | Persons covered by first instance decisions granting temporary protection, taken by administrative or judicial bodies during the reference period. |
| A08 Persons granted authorisation to stay for humanitarian reasons at first instance | Persons covered by other first instance decisions granting authorisation to stay for humanitarian reasons under national law concerning international protection, taken by administrative or judicial bodies during the reference period. |
| A09 Withdrawals at first instance | Persons covered by first instance decisions withdrawing refugee status, subsidiary protection status, temporary protection or authorisation to stay for humanitarian reasons under national law concerning international protection status, taken by administrative or judicial bodies during the reference period. |
| A11 Rejected applicants for international protection, final decisions | Persons covered by final decisions rejecting applications for international protection, such as decisions considering applications as inadmissible or as unfounded and decisions under priority and accelerated procedures, taken by administrative or judicial bodies in appeal or review during the reference period. |
| A12 Persons granted refugee status, final decisions | Persons covered by final decisions granting refugee status taken by administrative or judicial bodies in appeal or review during the reference period. |
| A13 Persons granted subsidiary protection status, final decisions | Persons covered by final decisions granting subsidiary protection status taken by administrative or judicial bodies in appeal or review during the reference period. |
| A14 Persons granted temporary protection, final decisions | Persons covered by final decisions granting temporary protection taken by administrative or judicial bodies in appeal or review during the reference period. |
| A15 Persons granted authorisation to stay for humanitarian reasons, final decisions | Persons covered by other final decisions, taken by administrative or judicial bodies in appeal or review, granting authorisations to stay for humanitarian reasons under national law concerning international protection during the reference period. |
| A17 Withdrawals, final decisions | Persons covered by final decisions withdrawing refugee status, subsidiary protection status, temporary protection or granting authorisations to stay for humanitarian reasons under national law concerning international protection, taken by administrative or judicial bodies in appeal or review during the reference period. |
| A16 Resettled persons | Persons who have been granted an authorisation to reside in a Member State within the framework of a national or Community resettlement scheme during the reference period, where such a scheme is implemented in that Member State. |
All data explicitly refers to the number of persons.
Statistical population for decisions on asylum applications and resettlement are third-country nationals, i.e. any person who is not a citizen of the European Union within the meaning of Article 17(1) of the Treaty, including stateless persons. This data is released as Extra-EU citizenship.
Data providers may also provide asylum statistics relating to EU citizens, which refer to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union - Protocol no 24 on asylum for nationals of Member States of the European Union (EUR-Lex - 12008E/PRO/24 - EN).
EU Member States, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland, Montenegro.
Croatia from January 2012.
Montenegro from January 2018.
United Kingdom until November 2020.
According Regulation (EC) No 862/2007, statistics on decisions on asylum applications and resettlement have been collected since the first quarter of 2008. Some other statistics or disaggregation were introduced later. (Statistics | Eurostat)
In addition, some statistics collected previously on a voluntary basis are available for the period 1999-2007. (Statistics | Eurostat)
| Datasets |
Complete data series |
Data later or missing |
|---|---|---|
| A04 Rejected applicants for international protection at first instance |
Data since Q1 2008 – BE, BG, CZ, DK, DE, EE, IE, EL, ES, FR, IT, LV, LT, LU, HU, MT, NL, AT, PL, PT, RO, SI, SK, FI, SE, IS, LI, NO, CH (29) |
HR – since Q1 2012, CY – since Q1 2009, ME – since Q1 2018 (before not applicable), UK – until Q3 2020 (after not applicable). (4) |
| A05 Persons granted refugee status at first instance |
Data since Q1 2008 – BE, BG, CZ, DK, DE, EE, IE, EL, ES, FR, IT, LV, LT, LU, HU, MT, NL, AT, PL, PT, RO, SI, SK, FI, SE, IS, LI, NO, CH (29) |
HR – since Q1 2012, CY – since Q1 2009, ME – since Q1 2018 (before not applicable), UK – until Q3 2020 (after not applicable). (4) |
| A06 Persons granted subsidiary protection at first instance |
Data since Q1 2008 – BE, BG, CZ, DK, DE, EE, IE, EL, ES, FR, IT, LV, LT, LU, HU, MT, NL, AT, PL, PT, RO, SI, SK, FI, SE, IS, LI, NO, CH (29) |
HR – since Q1 2012, CY – since Q1 2009, ME – since Q1 2018 (before not applicable), UK – until Q3 2020 (after not applicable). (4) |
| A07 Persons granted temporary protection at first instance |
Data since Q1 2022 – BE, BG, CZ, DK, DE, EE, IE, EL, ES, FR, HR, IT, CY, LV, LT, LU, HU, MT, NL, AT, PL, PT, RO, SI, SK, FI, SE, IS, LI, NO, CH (31) – quarterly data from data providers or totals from monthly data. |
ME, UK – no data (not applicable). (2) |
| A08 Persons granted authorisation to stay for humanitarian reasons at first instance |
Data since Q1 2008 – CZ, DK, DE, EE, IE, EL, ES, IT, LT, HU, MT, NL, AT, PL, RO, SK, FI, SE, IS, LI, NO, CH (22) |
BE, BG, FR, HR, LV, LU, PT, SI – no data (not applicable), CY – from Q1 2009 to Q4 2014 (before and after not applicable), ME – since Q1 2018 (before not applicable), UK – until Q3 2020 (after not applicable). (11) |
| A09 Withdrawals at first instance |
Data since Q1 2008 – BE, BG, CZ, DE, EE, IE, EL, ES, FR, IT, LV, LT, LU, HU, MT, AT, PL, PT, RO, SI, SK, SE, IS, CH (24) |
DK – since Q1 2011, HR – since Q1 2012, CY – since Q1 2009, NL – Q1-Q4 2014 and since Q1 2016 (before not applicable), FI – since Q1 2012, LI – since Q1 2009, NO – since Q1 2009, ME – since Q1 2018 (before not applicable), UK – from Q1 2010 to Q3 2020 (before and after not applicable). (9) |
| A11 Rejected applicants for international protection, final decisions |
Data since 2008 – BE, BG, CZ, DK, DE, EE, IE, EL, ES, FR, IT, CY, LV, LT, LU, HU, MT, NL, AT, PL, PT, RO, SI, SK, FI, SE, IS, LI, NO, CH (30) |
HR – since 2012, ME – since 2018 (before not applicable), UK – until 2019 (after not applicable). (3) |
| A12 Persons granted refugee status, final decisions |
Data since 2008 – BE, BG, CZ, DK, DE, EE, IE, EL, ES, FR, IT, CY, LV, LT, LU, HU, MT, NL, AT, PL, PT, RO, SI, SK, FI, SE, IS, LI, NO, CH (30) |
HR – since 2012, ME – since 2018 (before not applicable), UK – until 2019 (after not applicable). (3) |
| A13 Persons granted subsidiary protection status, final decisions |
Data since 2008 – BE, BG, CZ, DK, DE, EE, IE, EL, ES, FR, IT, CY, LV, LT, LU, HU, MT, NL, AT, PL, PT, RO, SI, SK, FI, SE, IS, LI, NO, CH (30) |
HR – since 2012, ME – since 2018 (before not applicable), UK – until 2019 (after not applicable). (3) |
| A14 Persons granted temporary protection, final decisions | Not applicable – Annual data of persons granted temporary protection are calculated from quarterly data (A07). |
(0) |
| A15 Persons granted authorisation to stay for humanitarian reasons, final decisions |
Data since 2008 – CZ, DK, DE, EE, IE, EL, ES, IT, LT, HU, MT, NL, AT, PL, RO, SK, FI, SE, IS, LI, NO, CH (22) |
BE, BG, FR, HR, CY (since 2015), LV, LU, PT, SI – no data (not applicable), ME – since 2018 (before not applicable), UK – until 2019 (after not applicable). (11) |
| A17 Withdrawals, final decisions |
Data since 2008 – BE, BG, CZ, DE, EE, EL, IT, CY, LV, MT, AT, PL, SI, FI, SE, CH (16) |
DK – no 2008, 2009, 2015, IE – no data (not applicable), ES – since 2013, FR – no 2008, 2010, 2011, HR – since 2012, LT – no 2008, 2015 (not available), LU – since 2009 (before not available), HU – no 2011-2014, NL – since 2014 (before not available), PT – no 2010 (not available), RO – no 2010, SK – no 2010, 2012, IS – no 2010, 2013, LI – no 2011, 2012, 2014, NO – no 2008, ME – since 2018 (before not applicable), UK – from 2010 to 2019 (before and after not applicable). (17) |
| A16 Resettled persons |
Data since 2008 – BE, BG, DK, DE, EE, IE, EL, FR, IT, CY, LV, LT, LU, HU, MT, NL, AT, PL, PT, RO, SI, SK, FI, SE, IS, LI, NO, CH (28) |
CZ – since 2010, ES – since 2009, HR – since 2012, ME – no data (not applicable), UK – until 2019 (after not applicable). (5) |
Not applicable.
Number of persons.
Calendar quarter and calendar year.
Compilation of statistics on decisions on asylum applications and resettlement is based on Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 and amending Regulation (EU) 2020/852, which depicts in detail the data provisions Member States are bound to supply Eurostat with.
Not applicable.
Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics (recital 24 and Article 20(4)), stipulates the need to establish common principles and guidelines ensuring the confidentiality of data used for the production of European statistics and the access to those confidential data with due account for technical developments and the requirements of users in a democratic society.
Data on decisions on asylum applications and resettlement are not confidential.
Statistical information is published in accordance with an approved release calendar.
In line with the Community legal framework and the European Statistics Code of Practice Eurostat disseminates European statistics on Eurostat's website respecting professional independence and in an objective, professional and transparent manner in which all users are treated equitably. The detailed arrangements are governed by the Eurostat protocol on impartial access to Eurostat data for users.
Data is disseminated continuously.
Data on decisions on asylum applications and resettlement are used in quarterly and annual news articles. Publications - Eurostat.
Data on decisions on asylum applications and resettlement are used in regular publications (News articles, Statistics Explained articles and other publications).
Eurostat produces Statistics Explained articles:
Data are published on the Eurostat website Database - Eurostat in the folder Decisions on applications and resettlement (migr_asydec).
Not applicable.
Data are rounded to the nearest 5.
Due to the rounding, the sum of individual cells may not necessarily match the given total.
Asylum - Eurostat guidelines to Asylum templates - 2021 onwards is a Technical Guidelines for the data collection under art. 4.1-4.3 of amended Regulation (EC) No 862/2007.
Eurostat has developed an asylum metadata and quality questionnaire to ensure the compliance of Member States with the requirements of Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 862/2007.
According to Article 9 of the Regulation, Member States must report to Eurostat on the data sources used, the reasons for the selection of these sources and the effects of the selected data on the quality of the statistics.
Member States collect the required data following the guidelines and instructions provided by Eurostat. Consistency checks are performed before data is published.
In addition, to ensure that the statistical practices used in the compilation of asylum data are in compliance with the methodological requirements and that best practices in the field of asylum statistics are followed, Eurostat organises every year a dedicated Working Group on asylum and managed migration statistics, where quality and methodological issues are discussed with national data providers.
Asylum statistics are based on administrative sources. Certain differences in definitions and practices of producing asylum statistics exist between countries. However, the Member States are generally following the requirements of the Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 and the quality of the data may be assessed as good or very good.
Users of Eurostat asylum statistics are:
Eurostat user satisfaction surveys are carried out at least once every 2 years. In addition, the user satisfaction is monitored on a constant way through informal and formal contacts and communications with users and through requests and comments received by users.
Completeness of the decisions on asylum applications and resettlement data depends largely on the availability of data from the relevant data providers (Ministries of the Interior, related immigration agencies and National Statistical Institutes).
The following table describes the completeness of the data from 2021.
| Datasets |
All required disaggregation |
Missing disaggregation |
|---|---|---|
| A04 Rejected applicants for international protection at first instance |
BE, BG, CZ, DK, DE, EE, IE, EL, ES, FR, HR, IT, LV, LT, LU, HU, MT, NL, AT, PT, RO, SI, SK, FI, SE, IS, LI, NO, ME (29) |
Missing status of minors (3):
|
| A05 Persons granted refugee status at first instance |
BE, BG, CZ, DK, DE, EE, IE, EL, ES, FR, HR, IT, LV, LT, LU, HU, MT, NL, AT, PT, RO, SI, SK, FI, SE, IS, LI, NO, ME (29) |
Missing status of minors (3):
|
| A06 Persons granted subsidiary protection at first instance |
BE, BG, CZ, DK, DE, EE, IE, EL, ES, FR, HR, IT, LV, LT, LU, HU, MT, NL, AT, PT, RO, SI, SK, FI, SE, IS, LI, NO, ME (29) |
Missing status of minors (2):
|
| A07 Persons granted temporary protection at first instance |
BE, BG, DK, EE, IE, EL, ES, FR, HR, IT, CY, LT, LU, MT, NL, AT, PL, RO, SI, SK, FI, SE, IS, LI, NO (25) – quarterly data from data providers or totals from monthly data. |
Missing status of minors (6):
Missing age (1):
Not applicable (1):
|
| A08 Persons granted authorisation to stay for humanitarian reasons at first instance |
CZ, DK, DE, EE, IE, EL, ES, IT, LT, HU, MT, NL, AT, RO, SK, FI, SE, IS, LI, NO, ME (21) |
Not applicable (9):
Missing status of minors (2):
|
| A09 Withdrawals at first instance |
BE, BG, CZ, DK, DE, EE, IE, EL, ES, FR, HR, IT, CY, LV, LT, LU, HU, MT, NL, AT, PL, PT, RO, SI, SK, FI, SE, IS, LI, NO, CH, ME (32) |
(0) |
| A11 Rejected applicants for international protection, final decisions |
BE, BG, CZ, DK, DE, EE, IE, EL, ES, FR, HR, IT, LV, LT, LU, HU, MT, NL, AT, PT, RO, SI, SK, FI, SE, IS, LI, NO, CH, ME (30) |
Missing status of minors (2):
|
| A12 Persons granted refugee status, final decisions |
BE, BG, CZ, DK, DE, EE, IE, EL, ES, FR, HR, IT, LV, LT, LU, HU, MT, NL, AT, PT, RO, SI, SK, FI, SE, IS, LI, NO, CH, ME (30) |
Missing status of minors (2):
|
| A13 Persons granted subsidiary protection status, final decisions |
BE, BG, CZ, DK, DE, EE, IE, EL, ES, FR, HR, IT, LV, LT, LU, HU, MT, NL, AT, PT, RO, SI, SK, FI, SE, IS, LI, NO, CH, ME (30) |
Missing status of minors (2):
|
| A14 Persons granted temporary protection, final decisions |
Not applicable - Annual data of persons granted temporary protection are calculated from quarterly data (A07). |
(0) |
| A15 Persons granted authorisation to stay for humanitarian reasons, final decisions |
CZ, DK, DE, EE, IE, EL, ES, IT, LT, HU, MT, NL, AT, RO, SK, FI, SE, IS, LI, NO, CH, ME (21) |
Not applicable (9):
Missing status of minors (1):
|
| A17 Withdrawals, final decisions |
BE, BG, CZ, DK, DE, EE, IE, EL, ES, HR, IT, CY, LV, LT, LU, HU, MT, NL, AT, PL, PT, RO, SI, SK, FI, SE, IS, LI, NO, CH, ME (31) |
Missing type of reason (1):
|
| A16 Resettled persons |
BE, BG, CZ, DK, DE, EE, IE, EL, ES, HR, CY, LV, LT, LU, HU, MT, NL, AT, PL, PT, RO, SI, SK, FI, SE, LI, NO (27) |
Missing country of previous residence (3):
Missing type of decision (1):
Missing resettlement framework (1):
Not applicable (1):
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The accuracy of statistical outputs in the general statistical sense is the degree of closeness of estimates to the true values.
The overall assessment of the accuracy of the data collection is considered to be high.
The asylum data are collected mainly through national administrative sources (registers in Ministries of the Interior, related immigration agencies and National Statistical Institutes).
Main sources of errors are:
EU aggregate is calculated as the sum of data from all Member States. It may be overestimated because of a certain risk that the same third-country national could apply for asylum in other Member States during the same reference period. While such risk is limited for high frequency quarterly data, annual aggregates at the EU level (based on quarterly statistics) can be possibly more affected by such double counting.
The following table describes the accuracy of data from 2008.
| Datasets |
Accuracy |
|---|---|
| A04 Rejected applicants for international protection at first instance |
IE (Q1 2017 break in time series), ES (since Q1 2025 provisional data), PT (Q1 2024 break in time series). |
| A05 Persons granted refugee status at first instance |
ES (since Q1 2025 provisional data), PT (Q1 2024 break in time series). |
| A06 Persons granted subsidiary protection at first instance |
ES (since Q1 2025 provisional data), PT (Q1 2024 break in time series). |
| A07 Persons granted temporary protection at first instance |
CZ (Q2 2024 definition differs), ES (estimated data for unaccompanied minors), FR (definition differs), CY (estimated data for unaccompanied minors). |
| A08 Persons granted authorisation to stay for humanitarian reasons at first instance |
ES (since Q1 2025 provisional data). |
| A09 Withdrawals at first instance |
ES (since Q1 2025 provisional data). |
| A11 Rejected applicants for international protection, final decisions |
No comments. |
| A12 Persons granted refugee status, final decisions |
No comments. |
| A13 Persons granted subsidiary protection status, final decisions |
No comments. |
| A14 Persons granted temporary protection, final decisions |
Not applicable – Annual data of persons granted temporary protection are calculated from quarterly data (A07). |
| A15 Persons granted authorisation to stay for humanitarian reasons, final decisions |
No comments. |
| A17 Withdrawals, final decisions |
No comments. |
| A16 Resettled persons |
FI (2021 break in time series), IT (2021 - 2024 definition differs). |
Not applicable.
Not applicable.
Depending on the data periodicity, the data is provided to Eurostat by the reporting countries:
Generally, data are released by Eurostat on the public online database approximately 3 working days immediately after their reception (given that they do not contain any errors). In exceptional cases (large revisions, further validation, technical reasons, etc.) data may be disseminated later than 3 working days.
The punctuality of the data is overall good.
Majority of countries are able to meet the requirements of transmitting the data within the deadlines foreseen in the Regulation (EC) No 862/2007.
However, it is often the case that few countries might transmit the data some days/weeks after the deadline. The number of countries, which provide delayed data can vary from period to period depending on problems that may arise in the respective national administrative systems.
The geographical comparability across countries may be affected by the fact that in some cases an applicant may submit a request in more than one country during the same reference period.
The comparability over time of asylum applicants is affected by updates of requested statistics.
Not applicable.
Internal consistency (between time, age, sex, country, citizenship) is ensured through various validation checks performed both by national data providers but also by Eurostat before data publication.
The types of statistics required under the Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 are needed also for national purposes, such as for the management of the national system for processing asylum applications. In almost all cases, the data is based on existing administrative and statistical systems. The specific burdens placed by the Regulation on national authorities are therefore related to the need to prepare particular disaggregation or tables that might not otherwise have been produced, and to the need to apply the harmonised statistical definitions and concepts. For some national authorities, this resulted in one-off costs associated with the necessary adaptations to methods, procedures and systems.
The extent of the additional burdens varied between Member States according to the degree of similarity between the existing national systems for migration statistics and the requirements of the Regulation. However, in most Member States and for most of the statistics covered by the Regulation, the additional costs and burden are believed to be relatively limited and to be proportionate to the benefits obtained at both EU and national level of having more complete and better harmonised migration statistics.
To further specify the general Eurostat revision policy, in the area of Asylum statistics a revision policy has been consulted with the Asylum and Managed Migration Working Group in March 2014. This policy is presented in the Annex 4 of the technical guidelines Asylum - Eurostat guidelines to Asylum templates - 2021 onwards.
According to this and following the Eurostat’s revision policy, revisions of asylum statistics are classified in three main types: routine revisions, major revisions and unscheduled revisions. As a general rule, the routine revisions shall be delivered annually, major revisions can be delivered with a prior agreement from Eurostat, and the corrections of errors in unscheduled revisions can be delivered at any time.
For more information, please see also in the Eurostat dedicated section on Asylum.
The revision practice generally corresponds to the revision practice of the domain listed under sub‑concept 17.1 (data revision – policy) but can be subject to exceptions.
Reported errors are corrected in the disseminated data as soon as the correct data have been validated.
Whenever new data are provided and validated, the already disseminated data are updated.
Data are usually revised for the last year, four quarters or twelve months. Aggregates and components are revised at the same time. Annual aggregated data are recomputed from monthly or quarterly data.
For the routine revisions the monthly datasets shall be revised once a year covering the period of the previous calendar year(s) and shall be delivered during the period from January to February of the following year. For the quarterly datasets the routine revisions shall be sent once a year covering the period of the previous calendar year(s); to be delivered during the period from January to March of the following year. For the annual datasets the routine revisions shall be sent once a year covering the period of the previous calendar year(s) and shall be delivered during the period from January to March of the following year.
However, in case of specific circumstances (e.g. high inflow of the asylum seekers in a given period, urgent policy or reporting needs), such routine revisions may de facto be accepted more frequently in order to ensure the highest accuracy of the published statistics. In this case these revisions will be published shortly after reception and validation by Eurostat.
Routine revisions, major revisions and unscheduled revisions are documented and monitored in the Metadata files available in dissemination.
Data may be published despite incomplete datasets, with some data missing or flagged as provisional for specific statistics. Such data are replaced with the final versions upon transmission and validation.
The impact of major revisions is analysed in working documents produced for expert meetings held with representatives of the national data providers.
| Datasets |
Revisions in 2025 |
|---|---|
| A04 Rejected applicants for international protection at first instance |
DE Q1 2024 - Q3 2024 in January 2025 (annual revisions), ES Q1 2024 - Q4 2024 in August 2025 (annual revisions), FR Q1 2024 - Q4 2024 in June 2025 (annual revisions), IT Q2 2025 in July 2025 (adjusted data), PL Q1 2025 - Q2 2025 in July 2025 (adjusted data), SE Q1 2024 - Q4 2024 in March 2025 (annual revisions), IS Q4 2024 in March 2025 (adjusted data), CH Q1 2008 - Q4 2024 in May 2025 (unified methodology for the entire period). |
| A05 Persons granted refugee status at first instance |
DE Q1 2024 - Q3 2024 in January 2025 (annual revisions), ES Q1 2024 - Q4 2024 in August 2025 (annual revisions), FR Q1 2024 - Q4 2024 in June 2025 (annual revisions), IT Q2 2025 in July 2025 (adjusted data), PT Q1 2025 in August 2025 (adjusted data), SE Q1 2024 - Q4 2024 in March 2025 (annual revisions), IS Q4 2024 in March 2025 (adjusted data), CH Q1 2008 - Q4 2024 in May 2025 (unified methodology for the entire period). |
| A06 Persons granted subsidiary protection at first instance |
DE Q1 2024 - Q3 2024 in January 2025 (annual revisions), ES Q1 2024 - Q4 2024 in August 2025 (annual revisions), FR Q1 2024 - Q4 2024 in June 2025 (annual revisions), IT Q2 2025 in July 2025 (adjusted data), PL Q1 2025 in July 2025 (adjusted data), SE Q1 2024 - Q4 2024 in March 2025 (annual revisions), IS Q4 2024 in March 2025 (adjusted data), CH Q1 2008 - Q4 2024 in May 2025 (unified methodology for the entire period). |
| A07 Persons granted temporary protection at first instance |
ES Q1 2024 - Q4 2024 in August 2025 (annual revisions), NL Q3 2024 in October 2024 (adjusted data), FI Q1 2022 - Q4 2024 in February 2025 (adjusted quarterly data), SE Q1 2024 - Q4 2024 in March 2025 (annual revisions), IS Q4 2024 in March 2025 (adjusted data). |
| A08 Persons granted authorisation to stay for humanitarian reasons at first instance |
DE Q1 2024 - Q3 2024 in January 2025 (annual revisions), ES Q1 2024 - Q4 2024 in August 2025 (annual revisions), IT Q2 2025 in July 2025 (adjusted data), SE Q1 2024 - Q4 2024 in March 2025 (annual revisions), IS Q4 2024 in March 2025 (adjusted data), CH Q1 2008 - Q4 2024 in May 2025 (unified methodology for the entire period). |
| A09 Withdrawals at first instance |
DE Q1 2024 - Q3 2024 in January 2025 (annual revisions), ES Q1 2024 in August 2025 (annual revisions), FR Q1 2024 - Q4 2024 in June 2025 (annual revisions), EE Q1 2024 - Q3 2024 in February 2025 (annual revisions), IT Q1 2023 - Q4 2024 in April 2025 (reclassification of withdrawals), PL Q2 2025 in July 2025 (adjusted data), PT Q4 2024 in April 2025 (adjusted data), FI Q1 2021 - Q3 2024 in February 2025 (reclassification of withdrawals), SE Q1 2024 - Q4 2024 in March 2025 (annual revisions), IS Q4 2024 in March 2025 (adjusted data). |
| A11 Rejected applicants for international protection, final decisions |
SE 2024 in August 2025. |
| A12 Persons granted refugee status, final decisions |
SE 2024 in August 2025. |
| A13 Persons granted subsidiary protection status, final decisions |
SE 2024 in August 2025. |
| A14 Persons granted temporary protection, final decisions |
Not applicable – Annual data of persons granted temporary protection are calculated from quarterly data (A07). |
| A15 Persons granted authorisation to stay for humanitarian reasons, final decisions |
SE 2024 in August 2025. |
| A17 Withdrawals, final decisions |
FI 2021 - 2023 in March 2025 (reclassification of withdrawals), SE 2024 in August 2025. |
| A16 Resettled persons |
ES 2024 in April 2025 (addition of country of previous residence and resettlement framework) and 2022 - 2023 in July 2025 (addition of country of previous residence and resettlement framework), MT 2023 in June 2025 (addition of resettlement framework), SE 2024 in August 2025. |
Data are compiled from the administrative records of the national authorities, mainly the Ministries of the Interior, related immigration agencies and National Statistical Institutes.
Decisions on asylum applications and resettlement data are collected on quarterly or annual basis.
| Datasets |
Data provided by countries |
Data calculated by Eurostat |
|---|---|---|
| A04 Rejected applicants for international protection at first instance |
Quarterly |
Annually (sum of quarterly data) |
| A05 Persons granted refugee status at first instance |
Quarterly |
Annually (sum of quarterly data) |
| A06 Persons granted subsidiary protection at first instance |
Quarterly |
Annually (sum of quarterly data) |
| A07 Persons granted temporary protection at first instance |
Quarterly data provided by countries or totals from monthly data. |
Annually (sum of quarterly data) |
| A08 Persons granted authorisation to stay for humanitarian reasons at first instance |
Quarterly |
Annually (sum of quarterly data) |
| A09 Withdrawals at first instance |
Quarterly |
Annually (sum of quarterly data) |
| A11 Rejected applicants for international protection, final decisions |
Annually |
Not applicable |
| A12 Persons granted refugee status, final decisions |
Annually |
Not applicable |
| A13 Persons granted subsidiary protection status, final decisions |
Annually |
Not applicable |
| A14 Persons granted temporary protection, final decisions |
Not applicable – Annual data of persons granted temporary protection are calculated from quarterly data (A07). |
Annually (sum of quarterly data). |
| A15 Persons granted authorisation to stay for humanitarian reasons, final decisions |
Annually |
Not applicable |
| A17 Withdrawals, final decisions |
Annually |
Not applicable |
| A16 Resettled persons |
Annually |
Not applicable |
This data collection is administered by Eurostat. The statistics are collected by the responsible data providers (Ministries of the Interior, related immigration agencies and National Statistical Institutes) and are supplied to Eurostat.
Eurostat performs a set of standardized validation checks before publishing the data.
The transmission and the delivery of the datasets to Eurostat is managed by EDAMIS, the unique entry point. Statistical data must meet the Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange (SDMX) standard with the CSV data transmission format.
The validation service infrastructure is built on two components performing validation operations, first structural validation (STRUVAL) checking the structure and organisation of a dataset, and then content validation (CONVAL) checking the content of the statistical files based on a set predefined validation rule. The data provider always receives two validation reports from each data transmission.
Validation rules to ensure internal data consistency:
Automatically validated data in EDAMIS are forwarded to Eurostat's production system, where they are further validated by data managers using additional validation tools and then finally published on the website of Eurostat.
Based on the national detailed figures transmitted by the national data providers, Eurostat derives European aggregates and annual aggregations using a common calculation method.
The geographical aggregation is calculated by an arithmetic sum if there are no missing values between the components of the respective geographical aggregate. Otherwise, they are not calculated.
The annual aggregation is calculated by an arithmetical sum if there are no quarterly values missing between the components of the respective annual total. Otherwise, they are not calculated.
Data are rounded to the nearest 5.
Due to the rounding, the sum of individual cells may not necessarily match the given total.
Metadata is continuously updated.