EU, over 59,000 asylum applications in February 2025 / Notizie / Comunicazione / Cinformi

27/05/2025

Here are the updated data from Eurostat

There were more than 59,000 asylum applications filed in EU countries in February 2025. The figure comes from the Statistical Office of the European Union. Eurostat reports that Venezuelans were the largest group of asylum seekers in the same month (8,345 first-time asylum seekers), followed by Afghans (5,610) and Syrian nationals (4,630).
Spain (12,805), Germany (11,185), France (10,725) and Italy (10,715) received the largest number of first-time asylum seekers, accounting for 77 percent of all first-time asylum seekers in the EU.
The total rate of asylum seekers in the EU in February 2025 was 13.2 per hundred thousand people. Compared to the population of each EU country (as of January 1, 2024), the highest rates of asylum seekers were in Greece (40.2), ahead of Spain (26.3) and Luxembourg (25.6).
In February 2025, a total of 1,720 unaccompanied minors applied for first instance asylum in the EU, most of them from Syria (300), Afghanistan (210) and Egypt (200).
The EU country that received the most asylum applications from unaccompanied minors was Germany (575), followed by Spain (330) and Greece (245).

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