Asylum requests; by citizenship, from 1975

This table provides annual figures of asylum requests and following family members (persons and procedures), by citizenship. Separate from the total number of requests and family members, the number of first requests and subsequent requests is also included. The distinction between first requests and subsequent requests cannot be made before the reference year 2007. Therefore the number of first requests is set equal to the number of total requests. The distinction between asylum requests and family members can, until now, not be made before the reference year 2013. For some individual countries, no data is available for the years before 1994. However, the number of requests for asylum for these countries are included in the total number of requests. In all cases it concerns small numbers. From 2016 onwards the number of first requests includes relocation. Data available from: 1975. Status of the figures: The figures in this table are definite. Changes as of February 2022: The final figures for 2021 have been added. The figures have been rounded to the nearest five to avoid identifying individuals. Until now, everything lower than 5 was shown as ‘0’ in this table. These figures have been replaced by a”. This is in accordance with the guidelines of Statistics Netherlands. When will new figures be published? The new figures for 2022 will be published in February 2023.