Finland: positive asylum decisions 2022

The number of positive asylum decisions fluctuated in Finland from 2012 to 2022, peaking at 47,118 in 2022. That year over 45 thousand people from Ukraine came to Finland.

Number of positive asylum decisions in Finland from 2012 to 2022

Characteristic	Number of positive asylum decisions
2022	47,118
2021	2,132
2020	2,066
2019	2,959
2018	2,740
2017	3,784
2016	7,745
2015	1,874
2014	1,346
2013	1,827
2012	1,601

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Release date

April 2023

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Finland

Survey time period

2012 to 2022

Supplementary notes

The source adds the following information: "An asylum seeker is a person applying for protection and right of residence in a foreign state. Those who are given international protection are granted a residence permit. Statistics on extended permits based on international protection can be found under ‘Residence permit’. No applications that have been corrected as subsequent applications in the statistics during the process can be seen in the statistics on applications."

Figures for years 2012 to 2015 were previously published by the source.

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