According to the UK's Home Office, France receives a much larger number of asylum seekers than Britain – around 113,000 in the year ending March 2022, compared to some 67,000 in the UK Those who arrive in France are to be found scattered across many different parts of the country, with many of them choosing to remain ...5 May 2023where is your data ?
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The UK received 74,751 asylum applications – from 89,398 people and their dependents – in 2022, according to Government figures, the highest annual figure since 2002.
This does not include Ukrainian nationals, of whom about 154,500 had arrived in the UK last year under two schemes created by the Home Office following Russia’s invasion.
This number places the UK as the fifth highest country in terms of asylum applications in Europe in 2022, according to figures by Eurostat, behind Germany, France, Spain and Austria.
Figures show Germany received almost two-and-a-half times the 89,398 asylum claims the UK got last year – a total of 217,735 from first time asylum applicants. France received 137,505, Spain 116,140 and Austria 106,375 in the same time period. European figures also take dependents into account.
Those figures also do not include Ukrainian refugees, of which more than one million arrived in Germany last year and similar numbers also registered for support in Poland.