Migration data in EU in 2023 based on Eurostat datasets.

Including: People living in the EU in 2023, Foreign-born residents per country, Reasons to stay in Europe, Employment of immigrants, Refugees in Europe, Migration to and from the EU, Seeking asylum in Europe, Irregular border crossings

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Persons, third-country nationals or stateless persons, having submitted an application for international protection during the reference month. Includes first time applicants and subsequent applicants.

Poland - Asylum and first time asylum applicants was 1030.00 persons in June of 2025, according to the EUROSTAT. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Poland - Asylum and first time asylum applicants - last updated from the EUROSTAT on July of 2025. Historically, Poland - Asylum and first time asylum applicants reached a record high of 1855.00 persons in June of 2024 and a record low of 500.00 persons in January of 2022.

In 2023, member states of the European Union received in total 677,625 applications for asylum, of which almost half were rejected. Asylum seekers are people who have left their home countries due to a fear of persecution or violations of their human rights, often for political reasons. An asylum seeker becomes a refugee upon being granted asylum, with a number of rights such as being allowed to stay in the country of asylum for an extended period of time then being granted. In spite of the large numbers of refugees from fleeing from Ukraine into the European Union due to Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, these refugees are mostly not recorded in the data on asylum seekers in Europe, as most EU countries opted to grant refugee status to all Ukranian nationals fleeing the country immediately upon entry, therefore bypassing the need to make an asylum case. As of 2022, the country which received the greatest number of asylum applications (and which also granted the greatest number of applications) was Germany, which received almost 217,000 applications. France, the country which received the second highest number of asylum applications, granted far fewer people refugee status, denying almost three times as many applications as they granted. A small number of countries in the EU take on the vast majority of asylum seekers, with these countries - Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Austria, Greece, Belgium, and Sweden - exclusively coming from the older members of the EU, who joined before the 2004 enlargements.

This dataset shows how the Eurostat data cube in the orginal publicatin is modelled in QB4OLAP.

This data is based on statistical data about asylum applications to the European Union, provided by Eurostat on

http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-datasets/-/migr_asyappctzm

Further data has been integrated from: https://github.com/lorenae/qb4olap/tree/master/examples

Asylum applicants by type, citizenship, age and sex - annual aggregated data

Context

Data containing asylum applicants number by citizenship of applicants and by geography of receiving country in Europe. Source is https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/data/database (official European Data Source). Data is downloaded from the source.

Content

Original data

The original data (migr_asyctz.tsv) is provided in TSV (tab delimited) format. Data contains asylum applicants number by citizenship of applicants and by geography of receiving country in Europe (yearly data, until 2007). The time unit used are years. Geography is at country level (in Europe) or aggregated on 2 indicators for Europe (EU27_2020 & EU28). For asylum applicants is given the citizenship (country of origin).

Transformed data

The transformed data (asylum_applicants_in_europe.csv) is in csv format. The temporal data was pivoted using Starter Kernel: Asylum Applicants in Europe Kernel.

How to

The original data has the temporal information given as columns (per year). In order to further use this data, it would be more easy to pivot first these columns to get instead date/value pairs. This pivot operation, using melt from pandas is done in the starter kernel: * Starter Kernel: Asylum Applicants in Europe; we convert the year to an integer. Just run this Kernel to put the data in csv format, with yearly data pivoted.

Acknowledgements

All merit for data collection, curation, and initial publishing goes to Eurostat.

Inspiration

You can use this data for various demographic, public health, social aspects, combining with alternative data from Kaggle and other sources.

Greece - Asylum and first time asylum applicants was 3720.00 persons in May of 2025, according to the EUROSTAT. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Greece - Asylum and first time asylum applicants - last updated from the EUROSTAT on July of 2025. Historically, Greece - Asylum and first time asylum applicants reached a record high of 11045.00 persons in November of 2023 and a record low of 715.00 persons in May of 2023.

Asylum applicants considered to be unaccompanied minors by citizenship, age and sex - annual data

This dataset is produced by EASO’s Information and Analysis Unit (IAU) on the basis of monthly data exchanged under the Early Warning and Preparedness System (EPS). The data shared with EASO by the EU+ countries are provisional and unvalidated, and therefore may differ from validated data submitted to Eurostat (according to Regulation (EC) No 862/2007).The visualization provides an overview of the key indicators regarding the situation of international protection in the EU+ in the past 25 months.

The indicator shows the number of first-time asylum applicants per million inhabitants and the number of positive first instance decisions per million inhabitants. Please note that caution is required when comparing these two values, since applications received in a given year might not be processed until a later year. Source data are supplied to Eurostat by the national Ministries of Interior and related official agencies. A first-time applicant for international protection is a person who lodged an application for asylum for the first time in a given Member State. First instance decisions are decisions granted by the respective authority acting as a first instance of the administrative/judicial asylum procedure in the receiving country.

Resettled refugees means persons who have been granted an authorisation to reside in a Member State within the framework of a national or Community resettlement scheme.

European Union - First instance decisions on asylum applications was 754525.00 persons in December of 2024, according to the EUROSTAT. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for European Union - First instance decisions on asylum applications - last updated from the EUROSTAT on June of 2025. Historically, European Union - First instance decisions on asylum applications reached a record high of 1075490.00 persons in December of 2016 and a record low of 260310.00 persons in December of 2012.

This table contains data on the total number of asylum applications submitted and the number of first asylum applications in various countries in Europe and the European Union. The figures for the countries in this table come from Eurostat; the statistical office of the European Union. The United Kingdom left the European Union on 31 January 2020. Until then, the United Kingdom was part of the EU28.

Data available from 2008 until 2023.

Status of the figures: The data until 2022 are final. The data for 2023 is provisional, and will not be finalized because this table has been discontinued.

Changes as of January 2025: None, this table has been discontinued, because the figures concerning European countries are already being published on EuroStat. See paragraph 3.

When will new figures be published? Not applicable.

European Union - Final decisions on asylum applications was 185455.00 persons in December of 2024, according to the EUROSTAT. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for European Union - Final decisions on asylum applications - last updated from the EUROSTAT on July of 2025. Historically, European Union - Final decisions on asylum applications reached a record high of 298225.00 persons in December of 2018 and a record low of 118110.00 persons in December of 2012.

European Union - Asylum and first time asylum applicants was 55840.00 persons in April of 2025, according to the EUROSTAT. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for European Union - Asylum and first time asylum applicants - last updated from the EUROSTAT on July of 2025. Historically, European Union - Asylum and first time asylum applicants reached a record high of 122015.00 persons in October of 2023 and a record low of 55840.00 persons in April of 2025.

Slovakia - Asylum and first time asylum applicants was 20.00 persons in April of 2025, according to the EUROSTAT. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Slovakia - Asylum and first time asylum applicants - last updated from the EUROSTAT on July of 2025. Historically, Slovakia - Asylum and first time asylum applicants reached a record high of 110.00 persons in February of 2022 and a record low of 5.00 persons in March of 2025.

Belgium - Final decisions on asylum applications was 8200.00 persons in December of 2024, according to the EUROSTAT. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Belgium - Final decisions on asylum applications - last updated from the EUROSTAT on June of 2025. Historically, Belgium - Final decisions on asylum applications reached a record high of 12485.00 persons in December of 2012 and a record low of 5065.00 persons in December of 2017.

European Union - First instance decisions on asylum applications: Humanitarian status was 67250.00 persons in December of 2024, according to the EUROSTAT. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for European Union - First instance decisions on asylum applications: Humanitarian status - last updated from the EUROSTAT on June of 2025. Historically, European Union - First instance decisions on asylum applications: Humanitarian status reached a record high of 76235.00 persons in December of 2023 and a record low of 11550.00 persons in December of 2013.

Italy - Persons subject of asylum applications pending at the end of the month was 218175.00 persons in March of 2025, according to the EUROSTAT. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Italy - Persons subject of asylum applications pending at the end of the month - last updated from the EUROSTAT on June of 2025. Historically, Italy - Persons subject of asylum applications pending at the end of the month reached a record high of 218175.00 persons in March of 2025 and a record low of 29705.00 persons in August of 2021.