Population movements and asylum applications in EU, 2001
| Country | Population movements 2002, per 1000 inhabitants | Asylum applications submitted in 2001 (countries with more than 10 000 applications) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Births | Deaths | Natural population growth | Net migration | Total increase | Total | Main countries or origin | |
| Table derived from multiple sources including EUROSTAT; UNHCR 2002; OECD (1998). *Figures for France are for 1990. | |||||||
| EU-15 | 10.6 | 9.7 | 0.8 | 2.7 | 3.6 | ||
| Austria | 9.6 | 9.2 | 0.4 | 2.1 | 2.5 | 30 140 | Afghanistan, Iraq, Turkey, India, Yugoslavia |
| Belgium | 11.0 | 10.4 | 0.6 | 2.9 | 3.5 | 24 550 | Russian Fed. Yugoslavia, Algeria, D.R. Congo, Iran |
| Denmark | 11.9 | 10.9 | 1.0 | 2.6 | 3.6 | 12 400 | Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia-Herzegovia, Yugoslavia, Somalia |
| Finland | 10.6 | 9.4 | 1.3 | 1.1 | 2.4 | NA | NA |
| France | 12.9 | 8.9 | 4.0 | 1.0 | 5.0 | 47 290* | Turkey, D.R. Congo, China, Mali, Algeria |
| Germany | 8.8 | 10.2 | −1.4 | 2.8 | 1.4 | 88,290 | Iraq, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Russian Fed. |
| Greece | 9.0 | 9.4 | −0.4 | 3.2 | 2.8 | NA | NA |
| Ireland | 14.8 | 7.7 | 7.1 | 5.1 | 12.2 | 10 330 | Nigeria, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, Russian Fed, |
| Italy | 9.6 | 9.9 | −0.3 | 2.7 | 2.3 | NA | NA |
| Luxembourg | 11.9 | 8.3 | 3.6 | 6.7 | 10.3 | NA | NA |
| Netherlands | 12.5 | 8.8 | 3.8 | 1.8 | 5.5 | 32 580 | Angola, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Iran, Guinea |
| Portugal | 10.7 | 10.4 | 0.3 | 6.7 | 7.0 | NA | NA |
| Spain | 10.4 | 9.2 | 1.2 | 5.6 | 6.8 | NA | NA |
| Sweden | 10.6 | 10.6 | 0.0 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 23 520 | Iraq, Yugoslavia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Iran, FYR Macedonia |
| UK | 11.2 | 10.2 | 0.9 | 1.8 | 2.7 | 88 300 | Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Yugoslavia |