The Ministry of the Interior published its yearly statistics for 2024 on immigration in France, including on asylum, with the following main observations:
- Asylum applications have decreased 5.7% in 2024, driven by a decrease in the number of Dublin procedures.
- In 2024, the main first-time applicants are of Ukrainian origin.
- There were 129,909 first applications and 27,643 for reexamination, hence a total of 157,552 applications, representing a decrease of 5.7% compared to 2023.
- This is the first decrease since the Covid pandemic in 2020.
- The decrease of 10.5% in first applications is due to Dublin Regulation applications, which fall very sharply by -45.5% in 2024 compared to the previous year and return to the level of 2021.