The World Refugee Day is organised every year on 20 June by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and is dedicated to raising awareness of the situation of refugees worldwide. This year’s theme ‘Together we heal, learn and shine’ calls for greater inclusion of refugees in health systems, schools and sport.
To mark the World Refugee Day, Eurostat is publishing a selection of data on asylum seekers available in its database:
Source datasets: migr_asyappctza, migr_asyunaa, migr_asydcfsta, migr_asydcfina, migr_asypenctzm, migr_asyresa
As set in the Migration Statistics Regulation, EU Member States regularly provide Eurostat with monthly, quarterly and annual statistics on asylum and managed migration. These cover information on non-EU citizens applying for asylum, entering and residing in the EU country, or those who are subject to enforcement of immigration law.
To strengthen the response to the challenges of migration, this regulation was amended in June 2020. The amendment increases the frequency, timeliness and the level of detail of the statistics from reference year 2021, including more frequent and detailed information on unaccompanied minors who are representing a particularly vulnerable group seeking protection.
In addition, in the area of asylum statistics, Eurostat started to collect new data on subsequent asylum applicants, on asylum applications under accelerated procedure, on applicants benefiting from material reception conditions and on types of withdrawals of asylum applications. The datasets with the new statistics are continuously published in the Eurostat database.
For more information:
- Eurostat dedicated section on asylum and managed migration
- Eurostat Statistics Explained article on asylum annual data – 2020 results
- Eurostat Statistics Explained article on the asylum statistics methodology
- United Nations: World Refugee Day
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