In 2023, EU countries sent 186 910 outgoing requests to transfer the responsibility to examine an asylum application and effectively implemented 16 869 outgoing transfers to other EU countries. Dublin statistics provide information on the functioning of the Dublin system, which establishes which EU country is responsible for examining an asylum application.
Over the same period, 163 415 incoming requests and 14 414 incoming transfers from other EU countries were recorded.
The largest numbers of outgoing requests using the Dublin procedure were sent by Germany (74 620) and France (48 724), representing 40 % and 26 % of the total number of outgoing requests recorded in 2023. They were followed by Belgium (14 079), Austria (13 558) and the Netherlands (9 955). These 5 EU countries sent 86% of all outgoing requests in 2023.
The largest numbers of outgoing transfers were also reported by Germany (5 049) and France (2 739), followed by the Netherlands (1 807), Cyprus (1 539), Belgium (1 241) and Austria (1 240). Taking a closer look at the data shows that while some countries register a high number of outgoing transfers, their transfer rates (calculated as ratio of actual outgoing transfers to outgoing requests) are not that high, because their number of outgoing requests are much higher. For example, in the 6 EU countries mentioned before, the highest transfer rate was registered in Cyprus, with 74% (1 539 outgoings transfers to 2 067 outgoing requests), while Germany and France registered much lower rates, at 7% and 6%, respectively.
Source datasets: migr_dubro and migr_dubto
4 EU countries received 57% of the incoming requests
Italy received the largest number of incoming requests in 2023 (42 468), followed by Bulgaria (18 145), Austria (17 476) and Germany (15 567). These 4 EU countries received 57% of all incoming requests in 2023.
By far the largest numbers of incoming transfers were reported by Germany (4 269 or 30% of the total) and Austria (2 166; 15%), while France (1 682; 12%) and the Netherlands (1 034; 7%) also recorded more than 1 000 incoming transfers.
Source datasets: migr_dubri and migr_dubti