The key indicators for 2024 are based on EUAA EPS monthly data provided by EU+ countries (except Iceland and Liechtenstein) through their ministries and national administrations, in the framework of the EUAA Regulation, Articles 5 and 6. EPS data was extracted on 3 February 2025 and may have been subsequently updated. The data are provisional and unvalidated and, therefore, may differ from validated data submitted to Eurostat, in line with Regulation (EU) 2020/851 amending Regulation (EC) 862/2007.
The recognition rate includes EU-regulated forms of protection (refugee status and subsidiary protection) and excludes national protection forms (for example based on humanitarian reasons, etc.). It is calculated by dividing the number of positive first instance decisions (granting refugee status or subsidiary protection) by the total number of decisions issued. Negative decisions comprise both rejections and decisions not granting EU-regulated forms of protection (refugee status and subsidiary protection).