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First-time asylum applicants per 100,000 inhabitants

How many people applied for asylum for the first time in each European country, for its population?

32 of 32 shown in the list

first-time asylum applicants per 100,000 inhabitants

  1. Greece534 2025
  2. Iceland426 2025
  3. Cyprus288 2025
  4. Spain287 2025
  5. Luxembourg260 2025
  6. Switzerland259 2025
  7. Ireland239 2025
  8. Belgium232 2025
  9. Italy218 2025
  10. Liechtenstein196 2025
  11. Slovenia186 2025
  12. France169 2025
  13. Austria136 2025
  14. Germany136 2025
  15. Netherlands134 2025
  16. Estonia73 2025
  17. Malta71 2025
  18. Latvia69 2025
  19. Norway59 2025
  20. Bulgaria59 2025
  21. Sweden48 2025
  22. Finland35 2025
  23. Denmark31 2025
  24. Poland31 2025
  25. Montenegro23 2025

Source: Eurostat, Asylum applicants by type, citizenship, age and sex (migr_asyappctza) and population on 1 January (demo_pjan). Data for 2025. What it counts, how to cite it and the data

At a glance

  • 32 countries or territories have a figure.
  • The highest is Greece at 534 (2025) and the lowest is Hungary at 1 (2025).
  • The middle value (the median) is 72.

What it counts

People who lodged an application for international protection for the first time in the year, divided by the population on 1 January and multiplied by 100,000, in the latest year each country reports (since 2021).

What it leaves out, and how far to trust a comparison

Applications follow wars, crises and routes of travel, not a country's policies alone, and many applicants move on to another country before a decision. A small country with few applicants can show a high rate. The figure counts people, not decisions: see the chart of positive decisions.

Source

Eurostat: Asylum applicants by type, citizenship, age and sex (migr_asyappctza) and population on 1 January (demo_pjan). Source licence: CC BY 4.0. Data retrieved 2026-10-23 to 2026-10-25.

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TheLawToKnow. (2026). First-time asylum applicants per 100,000 inhabitants [Chart]. Law in Charts. https://tools.thelawtoknow.com/law-in-charts/asylum-applications-per-100000. Data: Eurostat, Asylum applicants by type, citizenship, age and sex (migr_asyappctza) and population on 1 January (demo_pjan), https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/migr_asyappctza/default/table (data retrieved 2026-10-23 to 2026-10-25).

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Chart: TheLawToKnow, Law in Charts (https://tools.thelawtoknow.com/law-in-charts/asylum-applications-per-100000). Data: Eurostat.

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  author = {{TheLawToKnow}},
  title = {First-time asylum applicants per 100,000 inhabitants},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {Law in Charts},
  url = {https://tools.thelawtoknow.com/law-in-charts/asylum-applications-per-100000},
  note = {Data: Eurostat, Asylum applicants by type, citizenship, age and sex (migr_asyappctza) and population on 1 January (demo_pjan), https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/migr_asyappctza/default/table. Retrieved 2026-10-23 to 2026-10-25.}
}

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