Chapter 4 Figure 18 | Key flows of people registering new individual asylum applications, recognised on a group basis or granted temporary protection | 2024 Ukraine 879,100 United States of America 729,100 Germany 459,200 Sudan 872,400 Egypt 445,700 Syria 290,600 V enezuela 268,100 Colombia 149,000 Burkina Faso 134,600 Afghanistan 108,700 Somalia 101,600 Mali 91,000 Western Sahara 84,000 Chad 253,100 Spain 203,900 Poland 180,400 Canada 174,000 Italy 168,000 Uganda 146,100 France 142,100 Other 1,940,400 Other 1,862,600 Decisions on individual asylum applications Slightly more than 1.4 million people received substantive decisions on their individual asylum applications in 2024, essentially unchanged from the previous year.173 Additionally, 755,800 cases were closed without a decision for administrative reasons. Of the 1.4 million substantive decisions, 97 per cent were made by governments, while 43,000 were made by UNHCR under its mandate. A further 2,500 substantive decisions were made jointly by UNHCR and governments, mostly in Ethiopia. The global Total Protection Rate,174 which measures the percentage of substantive decisions in individual procedures that resulted in some form of international protection, decreased slightly from 59 per cent in the previous year to 55 per cent in 2024. This statistic shows that the high number of applications reflect both the rise of forced displacement globally but also that in some situations, those moving for nonrefugee related reasons use the asylum channel as a means to obtain temporary legal stay where other stay options are not available. The drop in the Total Protection Rate was largely a result of slightly fewer decisions made on Ukrainian asylum applications, who continue to have high recognition rates. The 173 See How is refugee status granted?, UNHCR. 174 See How are asylum indicators calculated?, UNHCR. UNHCR > GLOBAL TRENDS 2024 49