Asylum applications decisions Germany 2009-2023

As of February 2023, there were 42,466 decisions about asylum applications filed in Germany had been reached. Numbers fluctuated during the given time period, peaking in 2016 and 2017.

Number of decisions about asylum applications in Germany from 2009 to 2023

Characteristic	Number of decisions
2023¹	42,466
2022	228,673
2021	149,954
2020	145,071
2019	183,954
2018	216,873
2017	603,428
2016	695,733
2015	282,726
2014	128,911
2013	80,978
2012	61,826
2011	43,362
2010	48,187
2009	28,816

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Release date

March 2023

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Region

Germany

Survey time period

2009 to 2023

Supplementary notes

¹ Figures for 2023 refer to January and February.

Possible decisions:
-Legal refugee status
Subsidiary protection
-Determination of a deportation ban
Regection
-Other proceedings with a formal decision (according to the source, these take place without further examination of the asylum claims, for example stopping a process due to an application withdrawal by the asylum applicant or rejection of an application for continuing a further procedure for granting the right of asylum).
The data show the sum of first and formal decisions regarding first-time and subsequent applications without withdrawal examination and retrials.

Figures preceding 2013 were retrieved from an earlier BAMF monthly report.

BAMF = Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge (Federal Office for Migration and Refugees).

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