Press Release: EU Member States granted protection to 84,100 asylum seekers in 2011

The EU27 Member States granted protection to 84,100 asylum seekers in 2011 compared with 75,800 in 2010. The largest groups of beneficiaries of protection status in the EU27 were citizens of Afghanistan (13 300 persons or 16% of the total number of persons granted protection status), Iraq (9 000 or 11%) and Somalia (8 900 or 11%).

These data on the results of asylum decisions in the EU27 were released by Eurostat, the statistical office of the
European Union on the occasion of the World Refugee Day on 20 June 2012.