Statistics
Overview of statistical practice (1)
Monthly statistics are published by the Ministry of Migration and Asylum, 1 however detailed data on breakdown are only scarcely included.
Applications and granting of protection status at first and second instance: figures for 2025
Total
Applicants at
first instance
in 2025
61,6292
Pending at
Total decisions Total in merit
first instance
Total rejection
in 2025 (2)
decisions (3)
end of 2025
28,3173
60,4094
37,8685
17,0726
In merit
rejection (3)
Refugee status
(4)
11,1317
24,353
Subsidiary
protection
(4)
2,384
Breakdown by countries of origin (top ten nationalities with the highest numbers of applications). Missing data is not published by the Ministry of
Migration and Asylum. Data regarding status recognition includes decisions on applications submitted in previous years.
Afghanistan
Egypt
Sudan
Syria
Bangladesh
Iraq
Pakistan
Somalia
Nepal
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
15,296
9,548
8,179
3,511
3,132
2,449
2,105
1,667
1,639
15,628
2
1,935
1,678
317
1,781
424
17
686
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MoMA, Statistics, available at: https://bit.ly/3OFlP83.
These refer to total applications, with 55,381 first time applications and 6,248 subsequent applications. MoMA, Statistics: Consolidated Reports – Overview, December 2025 International Protection | Appendix A, available at: https://tinyurl.com/26ynfarp, Table 7c.
Ibid, Table 10a.
Of which 12,046 concerned Acts of Interruption (implicit withdrawal), 595 explicit withdrawals, and 160 archived cases, while 3,709 concerned inadmissibility decisions on subsequent
applications. Ibid, Table 8a.
This figure excludes “negative 1st instance (implicit withdrawals)” as shown in MoMA, Statistics: Consolidated Reports – Overview, December 2025 - International Protection |
Appendix A, available at: https://tinyurl.com/26ynfarp, Table 8a.
Includes also inadmissibility decisions. Does not include implicit and explicit withdrawals and archived cases.
Of which 2,749 are rejections as unfounded, 54 are exclusion from refugee status, and 8,328 are negative decisions after the examination through an accelerated procedure.
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