In November 2024, the countries of the European Union recorded a total of 75,045 new asylum applications, which represents a significant decrease of 14% compared to October of the same year. Additionally, this figure is 31% lower than the same month of the previous year, November 2023, which reached 108,895 applicants. According to the monthly asylum report published by Eurostat, there were also 6,430 subsequent asylum applications, with a 14% decrease from the previous month and a 5% decrease compared to November 2023.
Syrian citizens stand out as the largest group of asylum seekers, totaling 11,565 individuals who filed their application for the first time. They are followed by Venezuelans, with 7,210 applications, and Afghans, with 5,880. In terms of countries that concentrated the majority of these applications, Germany, Spain, Italy, and France account for 73% of the new applicants. Germany leads with 16,820 applications, followed by Spain with 14,925, Italy with 11,620, and France with 11,345.
In terms of incidence, the average asylum applicants in the EU is 16.7 applications per 100,000 inhabitants. However, Greece reports the highest rate, with 79.5 applicants per 100,000 people, followed by Cyprus with 42.4, and Spain and Luxembourg, both with 30.7.
An alarming fact also emerges from the report: 2,820 unaccompanied minors applied for asylum for the first time in the EU during November. Most of these young people come from Syria (860), Egypt (395), and Afghanistan (385). In this context, Germany stands as the country that received the most asylum applications from unaccompanied minors, with a total of 875, followed by Greece with 525 and Spain with 320.
These data reflect a dynamic of growing complexity in the asylum field in Europe, which continues to face fluctuations in application numbers, while trends in nationality and location of applicants remain relatively constant within the framework of the European migratory landscape.
via: MiMub in Spanish
