© UNHCR / Colin Delfosse After fleeing South Sudan without their parents, Victoria, 16, waits with her brothers and sisters to be registered as refugees in Dungu Town in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Their mother was killed in December 2015 and their father is still in South Sudan. "The day that war started, our father was not with us, so we could not know where we can go". The revised figures mean that South Africa has, by a large margin, the highest reported number of applications pending at any stage of the asylum procedure. This is followed by Germany with 420,600, an increase from 226,200 in 2014 and influenced by the large number of claims for asylum submitted in 2015. Other countries with more than 100,000 asylum claims pending at the end of 2015 include the United States of America (286,200), Turkey (212,400), and Sweden (157,000). All of these countries have experienced substantial increases in the numbers of pending claims compared with 2014. It should be noted that despite improved statistical reporting on pending asylum applications, the true number of undecided asylum cases is unknown, as many countries do not report this information. Finally, source countries with significant numbers of asylum-seekers waiting decisions reported to UNHCR were Afghanistan (259,900), Syrian Arab Republic (245,800), Iraq (237,200), and Ethiopia (77,900).45 ● 45 Information on country of origin was not provided for the pending asylum-seeker population in South Africa. UNHCR Global Trends 2015 45