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Immigration & migration flows

Official figures on asylum applications, decisions, returns, irregular border crossings and reception spending across the EU-27. Last refreshed 2026-04-30 from Eurostat JSON API. Frontex, IOM, EUAA, OECD pipelines being added.

Headline figures · EU-27

669,820

First-time asylum applications, 2024

Source: Eurostat migr_asyappctzm

325,765

Positive first-instance decisions, 2025

Source: Eurostat migr_asydcfsta

127,055

Third-country nationals returned, 2024

Source: Eurostat migr_eirtn

3,504,650

First residence permits, 2024

Source: Eurostat migr_resfirst

First-time asylum applications by destination · 2024

Total: 669,820

All EU-27 member states for the calendar year 2024. Bars sized to the largest destination (Germany). Source: Eurostat migr_asyappctzm, filtered to applicant type "first-time". Repeat applications excluded.

#	Country	First-time apps	% of EU-27
1	ES Spain	141,050	21.1%
2	IT Italy	126,630	18.9%
3	FR France	116,480	17.4%
4	DE Germany	113,235	16.9%
5	EL Greece	55,375	8.3%
6	BE Belgium	27,550	4.1%
7	NL Netherlands	24,115	3.6%
8	IE Ireland	12,980	1.9%
9	AT Austria	12,155	1.8%
10	PL Poland	11,160	1.7%
11	SE Sweden	4,935	0.7%
12	SI Slovenia	3,955	0.6%
13	BG Bulgaria	3,805	0.6%
14	CY Cyprus	2,835	0.4%
15	FI Finland	1,970	0.3%
16	DK Denmark	1,860	0.3%
17	LU Luxembourg	1,760	0.3%
18	PT Portugal	1,750	0.3%
19	LV Latvia	1,285	0.2%
20	RO Romania	1,155	0.2%
21	EE Estonia	995	0.1%
22	CZ Czechia	930	0.1%
23	HR Croatia	845	0.1%
24	MT Malta	400	0.1%
25	LT Lithuania	325	0.0%
26	SK Slovakia	135	0.0%
27	HU Hungary	105	0.0%

Sub-topics

Each sub-page is a single visual narrative. Expanding to live data as the broader fetch (origin × destination × year, returns funnel, funding flows) lands.

Asylum applications & decisions

Live

Multi-decade timeline, top origin nationalities, decision outcomes, recognition rates.

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Return orders vs executed

Live

The execution gap quantified — only ~27% of issued return orders are actually executed across the EU.

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Migration flows

Live

Frontex annual detections vs IOM-documented fatalities, 2014→present, with stacked-by-route breakdown.

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Routes

Live

The six Frontex-classified routes — per-route trend lines and IOM fatality counts for each.

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Foreign-population stock

Live

45M foreign citizens resident in the EU-27 — country-by-country breakdown, EU vs non-EU origin.

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First residence permits

Live

3.5M first permits issued each year by reason — employment, family, education, other.

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Naturalisations

Live

Annual acquisitions of EU citizenship by previously-foreign nationals.

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Employment by citizenship

Live

20M foreign-citizen workers in the EU labour force — country-by-country.

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Country comparator

Live

Pick up to 3 EU member states. Side-by-side 8-KPI cards.

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Spending vs flows

Live

EU border & asylum budgets (AMIF, BMVI, Frontex, EUAA) alongside applicant volumes — all curated from official accounts.

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Primary data sources for this category

Eurostat — applications, decisions, returns, permits, naturalisations, stock
Frontex — irregular border crossings by route
EUAA — asylum trends, country-of-origin reports
UNHCR — refugees & asylum-seekers by origin/host
IOM — Missing Migrants Project incidents
OECD — international migration database
Italian MoI — daily disembarkation dashboard
European Commission — AMIF, BMVI, Frontex, EUAA budget execution

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