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The top 10 nationalities with the most asylum applications in France

2024-07-17 08:26:00, Kosova & Bota CNA
The top 10 nationalities with the most asylum applications in France
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Asylum seekers from Afghanistan were the main applicants in France in 2023, submitting 16,550 requests. Despite being the main applicants, the number of Afghan asylum seekers has decreased by 26.5 percent compared to 2022.

According to statistics from the French Ministry of the Interior, a total of 167,056 asylum applications were submitted in 2023. Compared to the previous year, asylum application rates have increased by 7.2 percent, Schengen.news.info reports.

Afghanistan, Guinea and Turkey represent the top three countries of origin for asylum seekers in 2022. In addition, the number of decisions granting protection status this year has increased.

These are the top ten nationalities with the most asylum applications in France for 2023:

-Afghan – 16,550
-Guinean – 10,512
-Turkish – 9806
-People from Bangladesh – 9563
-People from Ivory Coast – 9562
-Congolese (DRC) – 8,813
-Georgian – 6121
-Sudanese – 5617
-Russian – 4158
- and people from Sri Lanka – 3,564

The ten nationalities represent 58.1 percent of all asylum seekers in France. Compared to 2022, the share of the first ten nationalities with the most asylum requests has decreased by 2.5 percentage points./ CNA 





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