Asylum applications and refugees in Slovakia

Asylum applications of foreign refugees in Slovakia

The total number of initial and continuing applications refers to the year 2020. 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.

Asylum applications of refugees from Slovakia

Slovakia is one of the countries, were refugees are not only migratiing in. Only in the year 2020 there have been 6 asylum applications, which were received for citizens from Slovakia in other countries. Most successful have been the applications in Canada.

National migrant stock from 1990 to 2015

In 2015 a total of 177,190 migrants lived in Slovakia. 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.