New data subjects related to asylum claims and corresponding hits in Eurodac

Between 2014 and 2015, the number of hits related to applicants for international protection (persons who had already lodged an application for international protection in the same or another Member State) increased slightly from 198 871 to 202 552 (see figure 11). Following verifications in Eurodac, in 2015, one in four applicants for international protection were found to have previously lodged applications for international protection. In the same year, verifications in Eurodac yielded that more than 90 % of the persons apprehended crossing a Member State’s border irregularly had lodged applications for international protection elsewhere (see figure 12)