First-time asylum applicants per 1,000 people in the EU

In 2025, the number of first-time asylum applicants was lowest in Hungary, at 0.01 per 1,000 inhabitants, and highest in Greece, at 5.34 per 1,000 inhabitants.

In 2025, the most people applied for asylum for the first time in Spain (141,035), Italy (128,655), France (116,370) and Germany (113,170). In Hungary, 105 people did.

In 2025, among the first-time asylum applicants in the EU, the largest group were citizens of Venezuela, 89,480 people. Citizens of Afghanistan followed, 63,975 people, then citizens of Syria, 40,500 people.

In 2025, 49.9% of the first-time asylum applicants in the EU were aged 18 to 34, and 18.0% were under 14.

In 2025, 34.8% of the first-time asylum applicants in the EU were women and 64.9% were men.

From 2015 to 2025, the EU figure fell from 2.75 per 1,000 inhabitants to 1.49 per 1,000 inhabitants.

People from outside the EU, or stateless people, who applied for international protection for the first time in the year (first-time asylum applicants), for every 1,000 inhabitants of the country on 1 January of that year.

Eurostat: “With AIP_FRST t being the number of first-time applications for international protection lodged by third-country nationals during year t, and POP t the residing population on 1 January of year t.” (source)

Computed by Eurostat from the administrative data of the Member States' asylum authorities (the counts of migr_asyappctza) and each country's population on 1 January.