Asylum applications and refugees from Gabon

Asylum applications of refugees from Gabon

The total number of initial and continuing applications refers to the year 2018. Please note that the number of decisions (acceptations or rejections) does not have to sum up with the number of applications, because there may still have been open cases from previous years. Also they dont have to be closed within the same calendar year. In addition, asylum procedures can also be closed, if the applicant disappeared or withdrew the application.

		New Applications					Reviews
Destination		applied	accepted	rejected	acceptance rate		applied	accepted	rejected	acceptance rate
France		338	46	306	13.1 %		272	21	98	17.6 %
United States		48	8	16	33.3 %		22	0	0
Canada		30	0	0			0	0	0
Germany		21	0	18	0.0 %		24	0	5	0.0 %
Belgium		20	0	10	0.0 %		0	0	0
Greece		8	0	0			0	0	0
Italy		5	0	6	0.0 %		0	0	0
Luxembourg		0	0	5	0.0 %		0	0	0
Totals		470	54	361	13.0 %		318	21	103	16.9 %
Asylum applications of foreign refugees in Gabon Gabon is not only a country from which many people escape. There are also refugees from other countries, who apply for asylum here and hope for a better future. Only in the year 2018 there have been 121 asylum applications from refugees of other countries. The most successful have been the refugees from the Congo and from Chad.
		New Applications					Reviews
Origin		applied	accepted	rejected	acceptance rate		applied	accepted	rejected	acceptance rate
Congo (Dem. Republic)		76	0	23	0.0 %		0	0	0
Chad		30	0	18	0.0 %		0	0	0
Central Africa		15	0	6	0.0 %		0	0	0
Totals		121	0	47	0.0 %		0	0	0

National migrant stock from 1980 to 2015

In 2015 a total of 268,384 migrants lived in Gabon. These are all residents who live permanently in the country but were born in another country. The amount includes granted refugees but no asylum seekers. The data are based on the results of censuses, as well as on estimates and projections of the United Nations Population Division.