Asylum applications

Whereas the share of asylum applicants in the EU population remains small (on average 0.15 % per year), some Member States are more affected than others. For example, in the decade 2013 2022, three Member States received more than 60 % of all new asylum applications submitted in the EU: Germany (35 %), France (14 %) and Italy (9 %) (see Figure 22). Other Member States face challenges due to high numbers of asylum applicants relative to their population. For example, Cyprus received 77 500 applications between 2013 and 2022, which amounted to 8.9 % of its (average) population. In the same period, Austria, Sweden and Malta also had to handle volumes of applicants that surpassed 4 % of their populations.