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title: "Appendix A: Asylum applications 1985 through 2015"
description: "[![](https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/PGM_2016.08.02_Europe-Asylum-16.png)](https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2016/08/02/appendix-a-asylum-applications-1985-through-2015/pgm_2016-08-02_europe-asylum-16/)"
date: "2016-08-02"
authors:
  - name: "Phillip Connor"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2016/08/02/appendix-a-asylum-applications-1985-through-2015/"
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# Appendix A: Asylum applications 1985 through 2015

[![](https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/PGM_2016.08.02_Europe-Asylum-16.png)](https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2016/08/02/appendix-a-asylum-applications-1985-through-2015/pgm_2016-08-02_europe-asylum-16/)

[![](https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/PGM_2016.08.02_Europe-Asylum-17.png)](https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2016/08/02/appendix-a-asylum-applications-1985-through-2015/pgm_2016-08-02_europe-asylum-17/)

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