First-time asylum applicants by country, 2025, European Union (27 countries)
People who lodged an application for international protection in the country for the first time during the year. Repeat applications are excluded.
27 places ranked for 2025. Highest: Spain (141,055 applicants). Lowest: Hungary (110 applicants). The median is 2,835 applicants.
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Source: Eurostat.
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| # | Country | Value | Period | Relative size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spain | 141,055 applicantsp (provisional) | 2025 | |
| 2 | Italy | 128,655 applicants | 2025 | |
| 3 | France | 116,475 applicants | 2025 | |
| 4 | Germany | 113,235 applicants | 2025 | |
| 5 | Greece | 55,380 applicants | 2025 | |
| 6 | Belgium | 27,540 applicants | 2025 | |
| 7 | Netherlands | 24,115 applicants | 2025 | |
| 8 | Ireland | 12,975 applicants | 2025 | |
| 9 | Austria | 12,505 applicants | 2025 | |
| 10 | Poland | 11,155 applicants | 2025 | |
| 11 | Sweden | 5,100 applicants | 2025 | |
| 12 | Slovenia | 3,965 applicants | 2025 | |
| 13 | Bulgaria | 3,800 applicants | 2025 | |
| 14 | Cyprus | 2,835 applicants | 2025 | |
| 15 | Finland | 1,970 applicants | 2025 | |
| 16 | Denmark | 1,865 applicants | 2025 | |
| 17 | Luxembourg | 1,770 applicants | 2025 | |
| 18 | Portugal | 1,755 applicants | 2025 | |
| 19 | Latvia | 1,290 applicants | 2025 | |
| 20 | Romania | 1,145 applicants | 2025 | |
| 21 | Estonia | 1,005 applicants | 2025 | |
| 22 | Czechia | 935 applicants | 2025 | |
| 23 | Croatia | 845 applicants | 2025 | |
| 24 | Malta | 405 applicants | 2025 | |
| 25 | Lithuania | 330 applicants | 2025 | |
| 26 | Slovakia | 130 applicants | 2025 | |
| 27 | Hungary | 110 applicants | 2025 |
Places are ordered from the highest to the lowest value. Group medians on this site are the middle value of the members with data for the same year; they are not official aggregates.
How this ranking works
Every country is ranked on its value for 2025, the latest period that most countries have, so all values are for the same point in time. Countries without a value for 2025 are left out. Groups and aggregates such as the European Union are not ranked. Values are as published by Eurostat; the ranking is a plain ordering from the highest to the lowest value and says nothing about whether a high value is good or bad.
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