Egypt has more asylum seekers than Germany, Spain and Italy
Asylum seekers (claims pending) at the end of 2015 and 2025, largest host countries after the US, UNHCR.
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Asylum seekers registered in Egypt at the end of 2025, up from 63,881 at the end of 2022.
Only the US (3.7 million) has more; Peru is third with 556,770.
Germany, Spain and Italy together hold fewer: 297,503, 248,715 and 234,144.
the numbers & method
| 2015 | 2025 | |
|---|---|---|
| Egypt | 38,135 | 878,268 |
| Peru | 350 | 556,770 |
| Canada | 19,631 | 314,475 |
| Germany | 420,570 | 297,503 |
| Spain | 11,023 | 248,715 |
| Italy | 60,135 | 234,144 |
| Kenya | 39,953 | 218,646 |
| Costa Rica | 3,259 | 178,212 |
| Mexico | 1,344 | 173,532 |
| United Kingdom | 45,853 | 144,747 |
| Brazil | 20,798 | 119,651 |
Claim types Fact
UNHCR population statistics (api.unhcr.org/population/v1/population), asylum-seekers by country of asylum, end-year stock for 2015 and 2025 (2025 = end-2025, Global Trends 2025). Asylum-seekers are people whose claims are registered and not yet decided. Egypt: 63,881 (2022), 232,244 (2023), 638,948 (2024), 878,268 (2025). The United States (286,177 in 2015; 3,718,945 in 2025) is left off the chart so the other countries stay readable. Rows are the largest hosts in 2025; South Africa, the largest host in 2015 (1,096,021), had 82,358 in 2025 and is not shown. Peru passed Germany in 2019; most of its pending claims are long-standing. Ranking, sum and changes are progrss calculations.
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