The number of asylum seekers varies over time, depending on the number and severity of crisis situations around the world, on the approval and entry policies of the receiving countries etc. An upward trend can be seen from the available data:
However, the most recent decade saw a decline:
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The top receiving countries are the following:
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Here are the numbers for 2010:
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When we plot this against the size of the receiving countries (which is a good measure of their “level of saturation”), we get the following picture:
The U.S. is usually the most popular destination for those seeking asylum, but not in terms of percentage of the total population of the destination country. Half a dozen or so countries account for half of all applications, or more.
Asylum seekers come mainly from the following countries (one notices a shift between 2003-4 and 2006-7):
Most people come from war-torn countries, understandably (Afghanistan, Iraq etc.).
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they should be sent back to their own countries and try to solve their own problems
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