Publication date: 17 April 2017
Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, published today a press release with 2015 data on the acquisition of citizenship in the EU. The main conclusions are that EU Member States granted citizenship to fewer persons in 2015, and Moroccans, Albanians and Turks remain the main recipients.
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Publication date: 07 April 2014
This Eurostat publication (data in focus) provides an overview of asylum applications and first instance decisions for the year 2013 in the EU.
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Main theme: International Protection, Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: asylum applications, asylum decisions
Asylum applicants and first instance decisions on asylum applications: third quarter 2013 (Eurostat)
Publication date: 23 December 2013
This Eurostat publication (data in focus) provides an overview of asylum applications and first instance decisions for the third quarter of 2013 in the EU.
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Main theme: International Protection, Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: asylum applications, asylum decisions
Publication date: 10 October 2013
This Eurostat publication (data in focus) provides an overview of asylum applications and first instance decisions for the second quarter of 2013 in the EU.
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Main theme: International Protection, Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: asylum applications, asylum decisions
Asylum applicants and first instance decisions on asylum applications: first quarter 2013 (Eurostat)
Publication date: 08 August 2013
This Eurostat publication (data in focus) provides an overview of asylum applications and first instance decisions for the first quarter of 2013 in the EU.
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Main theme: International Protection, Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: asylum applications, asylum decisions
Publication date: 14 May 2013
This Eurostat publication (data in focus) provides an overview of asylum applications and first instance decisions for the year 2012 in the EU-27.
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Main theme: International Protection, Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: asylum applications, asylum decisions
Publication date: 13 December 2012
This Eurostat publication (data in focus) provides an overview of asylum applications and first instance decisions for the third quarter of 2012 in the EU.
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Main theme: International Protection, Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: asylum applications, asylum decisions
Publication date: 25 October 2012
This Eurostat publication (data in focus) provides an overview of asylum applications and first instance decisions for the second quarter of 2012.
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Main theme: International Protection, Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: asylum applications, asylum decisions
Publication date: 08 August 2012
Nearly two-third of the foreigners living in EU Member States are citizens of countries outside the EU-27.
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Main theme: Data & Statistics
Keywords: citizenship, country of birth, non-EU national
Asylum applicants and first instance decisions on asylum applications: first quarter 2012 (Eurostat)
Publication date: 02 August 2012
This Eurostat publication (data in focus) provides an overview of asylum applications and first instance decisions for the first quarter of 2012.
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Main theme: International Protection, Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: asylum applications, asylum decisions
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Eurostat data show that in 2024, the EU issued 3.5 million first residence permits to non-EU citizens, marking an 8.3% decrease compared with 2023, which had recorded the highest number to date. Employment remained the main reason for granting residence permits, while student permits continued to increase slightly.
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Main theme: Data & Statistics, Asylum, Migration
Keywords: Eurostat, first residence permit
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Eurostat released trafficking in human beings statistics, revealing that 10.793 victims were registered in the EU in 2023, an increase of 6.9% compared with 2022 and the highest recorded value in the period 2008-2023. Several countries explained that it is partly reflected through increased attention of the authorities and agencies that fight against trafficking in human beings.
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Main theme: Data & Statistics
Keywords: victims of human trafficking, trafficker, forced labour
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According to recent data released by Eurostat, 124.935 non-EU citizens were ordered to leave an EU country, and 28.630 persons were returned to third countries following an order to leave. When compared with the same quarter of 2023, the number of non-EU citizens ordered to leave went up by 16.3%, while the number of people returned to third countries increased by 24.3%.
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Main theme: Data & Statistics
Keywords: order to leave the territory, voluntary return, forced return, irregularly staying third-country national
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In 2023, 1.050.100 people obtained citizenship of the EU country of their usual residence, an increase of 6.1% compared with 2022. This was mainly the result of increases in absolute terms in Spain (58.600 more residents were granted Spanish citizenship than in 2022), followed by Germany (33.200 more) and Belgium (6.700 more)
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Main theme: Data & Statistics
Keywords: acquisition of citizenship, naturalisation rate
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"Migration and asylum in Europe" allows to explore, visualise and compare indicators on migration and asylum at the EU and country levels. Key data and trends are proposed on topics such as population diversity, protection and asylum, irregular migration and return, and skills of migrants.
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Main theme: Data & Statistics
Keywords: migration trend, asylum trend
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Eurostat released data on unaccompanied minors granted temporary protection in 21 EU Member States and all EFTA countries between March 2022 and September 2024. Austria, the Netherlands and Lithuania have granted the most temporary protection statuses, in absolute terms, to unaccompanied minors since March 2022. Belgium has granted temporary protection status to 1600 unaccompanied minors during the same period.
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Main theme: Data & Statistics, Temporary protection
Keywords: temporary protection, beneficiary of temporary protection, unaccompanied minors, Ukraine
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Eurostat published data on first residence permits, highlighting that 3.741.015 first residence permits were issued in the EU to non-EU citizens in 2023, a 4.7% increase compared with 2022. Belgium issued 74.366 first residence permits to non-EU nationals in 2023, an 8,5% increase compared with 2022.
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Main theme: Data & Statistics
Keywords: first residence permit, employment, family reunification, international protection, education
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According to recent figures published by Eurostat, Belgium sent 14.079 outgoing requests using the Dublin procedure, thus appearing in the top 5 countries that sent 86% of all outgoing requests in 2023. Belgium also reported 1.241 outgoing transfers in 2023.
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Main theme: Data & Statistics
Keywords: Dublin transfer
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According to Eurostat, the number of people returned to another country increased by 11% in the first quarter of 2024 compared with the same quarter of 2023. In comparison with the previous quarter (fourth quarter of 2023), the number of returns went up by 6%.
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Main theme: Data & Statistics
Keywords: order to leave the territory, return, law enforcement
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Eurostat published 2023 figures regarding immigration law enforcement in the EU, with a particular focus on people refused entry in the EU, people found to be illegally present in the EU, people ordered to leave an EU country and people returned following an order to leave.
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Main theme: Data & Statistics
Keywords: immigration law, law enforcement
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In 2023, Belgium registered 8,8% fewer first-time asylum applicants than in 2022, that is to say, 29.260 in 2023 compared to 32.100 in 2022. On the contrary, the number of first-time asylum applicants registered in the whole EU in 2023 reached 1.048.880, which represents an increase of 20.1 % compared to 2022.
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Main theme: Data & Statistics
Keywords: first-time asylum applicant, Eurostat
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Today Eurostat launches an interactive visualisation tool that offers a comprehensive overview of data related to demography, the labour market, education, social inclusion, housing, health and active citizenship of the migrant population in the EU.
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Main theme: Data & Statistics
Keywords: inclusion, Immigrant integration
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Recent Eurostat figures show that in 2022, 10.093 victims of human trafficking were registered in the European Union. There were 8.064 suspected traffickers and 2.097 convicted traffickers. The statistics also shed light on gender distribution among traffickers and victims, as well as exploitation patterns.
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Main theme: Smuggling & Trafficking
Keywords: human trafficking, victims of human trafficking, gender, sexual exploitation, forced labour, Eurostat
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Eurostat published today data referring to the attribution of temporary protection status based on the Council Implementing Decision 2022/382 of 4 March 2022. On 31 August 2023, almost 4.2 million non-EU citizens, who fled Ukraine as a consequence of the Russian invasion on 24 February 2022, had temporary protection status in EU countries.
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Main theme: Data & Statistics, Temporary protection
Keywords: temporary protection, Ukraine
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According to data on first residence permits published by Eurostat, almost 3,7 million first residence permits were issued in the EU to non-EU citizens in 2022, a 26% increase (+753 445 permits) compared with 2021. This figure does not include persons granted authorization to reside and benefiting from temporary protection status for which statistics are collected under a separate data collection framework.