Chapter 5 Table 3 | New asylum claims registered in UNHCR offices with more than 10,000 claims* | 2013-2017 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Turkey 44,800 87,800 133,300 78,600 126,100 Egypt ** 10,800 10,000 21,100 28,500 27,800 Malaysia 53,600 25,700 22,100 20,100 23,700 Jordan 6,700 29,100 19,400 12,000 10,600 * Excluding appeal and review claims. ** Includes appeal claims in 2013. applications, more than three times the number in 2016 (11,900). Most asylum claims were received from nationals from central and eastern Africa including Somalis (6,800), Burundians (5,000), and Eritreans (3,300). There were 57,000 new individual asylum applications in Greece during the course of 2017, a 15 per cent increase from 2016 and more than five times the number lodged in 2015 (11,400). Syrians submitted the most applications with 16,300, a decrease from the 26,600 claims registered in 2016. However, asylum claims submitted by Pakistanis (8,300), Iraqis (7,900), and Afghans (7,500) all increased considerably compared with 2016 when 4,400, 4,800 and 4,300 claims were received, respectively. Canada was the ninth-largest recipient of asylum claims with 47,800 registered in 2017, more than double the 23,600 claims registered in 2016. The largest number was submitted by nationals of Haiti (7,300) followed by Nigeria (5,500), Turkey (2,200), and the United States of America (2,100). The increased number of nationals of the United States applying for asylum in Canada is mainly composed of USA-born children of third-country nationals who were living in the United States, prior to claiming protection in Canada. Finally, Tanzania received 36,500 individual asylum claims in 2017. As with Uganda and Turkey, individual claims were recorded in addition to substantial group registration. In the case of Tanzania, there were also 22,500 refugees recognized on a group basis. Two neighbouring countries of origin accounted for nearly the entirety of new asylum claims: Burundi with 24,300 claims and the DRC with 12,200. In certain countries, refugee status determination is carried out by UNHCR, under its mandate. UNHCR offices registered a significant proportion of individual asylum claims in 2017, and countries receiving the most claims were the same as in 2016. 42 The office in Turkey has continued to receive the most new requests, with numbers increasing to levels similar to 2015 after a drop in 2016 [Table 3]. The UNHCR office in Egypt received the next highest number of new applications with 27,800, followed by Malaysia (23,700), Jordan (10,600), and Syria (9,900). By nationality For the first time since 2013, Syria was not the most common country of origin for new asylum-seekers [Figure 15]. The highest number of asylum claims filed by individuals were from nationals of Afghanistan who submitted 124,900 claims in 80 different countries, although this number is considerably lower than those submitted in 2016 (237,800) and 2015 (271,100). As in 2016, Turkey received the most claims with 67,400 registered, replacing Germany, which received 16,400 claims compared with 127,000 in 2016. In contrast to 2016, Greece was the third most common recipient of claims from Afghans with 7,500, followed by France (6,600) and India (4,500). Austria and Hungary both saw sharp declines in claims submitted by Afghan nationals, from 11,500 and 10,800 in 2016 to 3,500 and 1,200 in 2017, respectively. Pakistan (2,200) and the United Kingdom (1,900) also continued to receive new Afghan claims for asylum. Overall, only about half of substantive asylum decisions for new applications for Afghan nationals granted them protection, known as the Total Protection Rate (TPR), 56 and the protection rates varied widely between countries. In Germany, the TPR was under half (47 per cent) for all forms of 56 UNHCR uses two rates to compute the proportion of refugee claims accepted. The Refugee Recognition Rate is the proportion of asylum-seekers accorded refugee status out of the total number of substantive decisions (Convention status, complementary protection, and rejected cases). The Total Protection Rate is the proportion of asylum-seekers accorded refugee status or a complementary form of protection by the total number of substantive decisions (formerly referred to as Total Recognition Rate or TRR). Non-substantive decisions are, to the extent possible, excluded from both calculations. For the purposes of global comparability, UNHCR uses only these two rates and does not report rates calculated by national authorities. unhcr > Global trends 2017