First-time asylum applications

In 2025, the EU-27 figure for first-time asylum applications was 669,820 .

That is a 26.6% fell versus 2024 (912,835).

Over the five years before that, the EU-27 aggregate moved 61.2% higher.

Across member states, France reported the highest value (26,105, 2026) and Slovakia the lowest (20, 2026) — a ratio of 1305.3× between the two ends of the range.

The figures below come from Eurostat dataset migr_asyappctzm; every value links back to the canonical source.