Netherlands: asylum requests, by type 2022

This statistic shows the total number of asylum requests in the Netherlands from 2009 to 2022. In 2022, the Netherlands received a total of 37,000 asylum requests. Around 10,900 family members applied for asylum in the Netherlands as part of a family reunification.

Number of asylum requests in the Netherlands from 2009 to 2022, by type

Characteristic	First asylum request	Second asylum request or more	Family members joining asylum seekers
2022	35,535	1,530	10,925
2021	24,740	1,815	10,120
2020	13,720	1,595	3,865
2019	22,540	2,725	4,180
2018	20,510	3,565	6,465
2017	16,145	2,120	14,490
2016	19,370	1,655	11,815
2015	43,095	1,940	13,845
2014	21,810	2,725	5,355
2013	9,840	3,255	3,630
2012	9,715	3,455	-
2011	11,590	3,040	-
2010	13,335	1,815	-
2009	14,905	1,260	-

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Release date

March 2023

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Region

Netherlands

Survey time period

2009 to 2022

Supplementary notes

The source defines asylum requests as follows: as a refugee a person can submit an asylum request if he/she had to leave his/her own country and decides to ask for protection or asylum in another country. An asylum seeker can file a new asylum request based on new facts or changing circumstances when his/her initial request is denied. Asylum seekers who have received asylum under special circumstances are allowed to bring their family to the Netherlands within 90 days. Those family members receive a special derived asylum permit.

From 2007 it is possible to differentiate between the numbers of asylum requests. From 2013, the number of family members joining the asylum seekers is also registered.

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