Statistics

United Kingdom

Country Report: Statistics Last updated: 30/05/23

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Overview of statistical practice

Statistics on asylum are published as part of a package of immigration statistics on a quarterly basis by the National Statistics authority,[1] using Home Office administrative sources. Where statistics are not made available, they are requested directly from the Home Office using a Parliamentary Question.[2] Difficulties have also been encountered with regard to Home Office responses to freedom of information (FOI) requests.[3] The numbers include dependants.

 

Applications and granting of protection status at first instance: 2022

  Applicants in year Pending at end of year Refugee status Subsidiary protection Rejection Refugee rate Sub. Prot. rate Rejection rate
Total 89,398 160,919 16,705 1,042 5,712 70% 4% 24%
Breakdown by countries of origin of the total numbers
Albania 15,925 24,747 (264)[4] 648 10 424 60% 0.9% 39%
Afghanistan 10,872 13,056 (123) 2,113 13 42 97% 0.6% 2%
 Iran 9,183 18,593 (519) 2,806 15 679 80% 0.4% 19%
 Iraq 6,295 15,887 (664) 602 193 660 41% 013% 45%
Syria 4,534 7,372 (10) 1,718 2 20 99% 0.1% 0.1%
 Bangladesh 3,468 6,404 (376) 135 1 251 33% 0.2% 60%
 Eritrea 3,275 7,032 (36) 2,596 4 44 98% 0.1% 2%
India 3,248 4,640 (139) 9 0 293 3% 0% 95%
 Sudan 3,191 5,369 (124) 996 3 207 82% 0.3% 17%
 Pakistan 2.582 5,859 (407) 462 5 342 54% 0.6% 40%

Source: National Statistics Authority; Home Office. All percentages are calculated from total decisions omitting withdrawn claims. If percentages do not add up to 100 it is because the remainder were granted other types of leave.

 

Gender/age breakdown of the total number of applicants: 2022

  Number Percentage
Total number of applicants 89,398 100%
Men (incl. children) 68,394 77%
Women (incl. children) 20,405 23%
Children 15,670 18%
Unaccompanied children 5,242 6%

Source: National Statistics Authority; Home Office.

 

 

 

[1] National Statistics Authority, available at: https://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/. See also Home Office, Immigration Statistics, available at: https://bit.ly/3awmb9O.

[2] Parliament, Parliamentary Questions, available at: http://bit.ly/2kL0olB.

[3] See e.g. Information Commissioner, Decision FS50646722, 12 January 2017, available at: http://bit.ly/2kQ5TiU.

[4] Numbers in brackets represent claims with an initial decision awaiting further review.

Table of contents

  • Statistics
  • Overview of the legal framework
  • Overview of the main changes since the previous report update
  • Asylum Procedure
  • Reception Conditions
  • Detention of Asylum Seekers
  • Content of International Protection