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(EU) Asylum decisions in the EU: EU Member States granted protection to more than half a million asylum seekers in 2017

Posted by: Semere Asmelash

Date: Thursday, 19 April 2018

Asylum decisions in the EU: EU Member States granted protection to more than half a million asylum seekers in 2017

REPORT
from European Union
Published on 19 Apr 2018 View Original

Almost one-third of the beneficiaries were Syrians

The 28 Member States of the European Union (EU) granted protection status to 538 000 asylum seekers in 2017, down by almost 25% from 2016. In addition to these, the EU Member States received nearly 24 000 resettled refugees.

The largest group of beneficiaries of protection status in the EU in 2017 remained citizens of Syria (175 800 persons, or 33% of the total number of persons granted protection status in the EU Member States), followed by citizens of Afghanistan (100 700 or 19%) and those of Iraq (64 300 or 12%).

The number of decisions granting protection status to Syrian citizens has dropped since 2016 (when they accounted for a share of 57% of all grants) however, they remained the largest group granted protection status in eighteen Member States in 2017. Of the 175 800 Syrian citizens granted protection status in the EU, more than 70% received protection status in Germany (124 800).

These data on the results of asylum decisions in the EU are released by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.




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