Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Since 2013, the demographic profile of asylum seekers in the EU-28, Norway and Switzerland has become slightly more male (67% in 2013, 71% in 2014 and 73% in 2015), with a steady share of asylum seekers arriving under 35 years of age (80% in 2013 and in 2014, 83% in 2015). Among all asylum seekers […]
The analysis of this report is based on asylum application data from Eurostat, the European Union’s statistical agency. Eurostat is a central repository of the European Union’s economic, environmental and population data. Its goal is to provide high quality statistics that enable comparisons across countries. Annual data were accessed on June 22, 2016. The asylum […]
Asylum seekers make their way to Europe in fits and starts, by direct as well as indirect routes, by air, land and sea. Consequently, it is difficult to trace the precise paths taken by thousands of asylum seekers. However, by pairing the country where a migrant is seeking asylum with the country that same migrant […]