Chapter 5
Total Protection Rate (per cent)
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protection in just over half (54 per cent). The TPR
varies greatly among countries of asylum. For
example, Switzerland had a TPR of 75 per cent,
compared with Australia and Sweden where only
about a quarter of asylum decisions granted
protection (27 per cent and 23 per cent respectively).
Germany made the most substantive decisions
(245,700) and had a TPR of 43 per cent.
Pending claims
There were 3,503,300 asylum-seekers with pending
claims at the end of 2018, an 13 per cent increase on
the 3,090,900 awaiting decisions at the end of the
previous year and a continuation of an increasing
trend over recent years.
The largest asylum-seeker population at the end of
2018 continued to be in the United States of America,
where the population increased from 642,700 at the
start of the year to 719,000 at the end.
In Germany, the asylum-seeker population continued
to decline, as decisions were made on the large
number of applications lodged in the previous years,
and stood at 369,300 at the end of 2018. This was a
14 per cent decline on the 429,300 asylum-seekers
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at the end of 2017. The majority of these were cases
pending court proceedings.
Turkey hosted the third largest asylum-seeker
population with 311,700 pending claims as of
10 September 2018. This figure does not include
Syrians who are protected under the country’s
Temporary Protection Regulation and do not
undergo individual refugee status determination.
Peru has seen a more than six-fold increase of its
asylum-seeker population from 37,800 at the end of
2017 to 230,900 at the end of 2018. This is mainly
due to the large number of asylum claims from
Venezuelans received during the year.
Other countries with more than 50,000 asylum claims
pending at the end of 2018 included South Africa
(184,200),79 Brazil (152,700), Italy (105,600), France
(89,100), Canada (78,800), Spain (78,700), Greece
(76,100), Egypt (68,200) and Australia (60,600).
Venezuelans had the largest number of pending
asylum claims in 2018 with 464,200 cases.
This compares with 45,100 in 2016 and 148,000 in
2017. Asylum-seekers from Afghanistan constituted
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