According to recently published figures by EuroStat, in 2024, EU countries granted “protection status” to 437 900 asylum seekers, a 7% increase compared with up to 409,540 applicants in 2023. Of these decisions, 387 635 people being granted protection status upon their first application while another 50265 people received protection status after an appeal or review. According to the EU, this is the highest amount of protection status rewarded since the previous peaks recorded after the Sudan refugee crisis in 2016 and 2017.
Syrians topped the highest number of applicants who received protection status (32%), followed by Afghans (17%) and Venezuelans (8%). Other nationalities that received protection status included Ukrainians (3.2%, 13 885), Malians (2.9%, 12 760), Somalis (2.8%, 12 210), Turks (2.5%, 11 080), Eritreans (2.4%, 10 470) and Palestinians (2.1%, 9 105).
Germany is the country that gave the highest number of protection status (150 500, 34.4% of the EU total), ahead of France (65 230, 14.9%) and Spain (50 915, 11.6%). All together, these 3 countries granted more than 60% of the protection statuses at EU level.
Malta was one of the least countries that accepted asylum applications along with Portugal and Hungary.
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