Germany: Over 217,000 Asylum Seekers Enter in 2022, Most Since 2016 Crisis
17th January 2023
Newly released data from Germany’s federal government, controlled by the three-party, left-liberal ‘traffic light’ coalition, has revealed that the number of migrants seeking asylum in the country—excluding Ukrainian refugees—has climbed to levels not previously seen since the 2016 European migrant crisis.
The figures, released on Wednesday, January 11th, in a report by Germany’s Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), indicated that the Federal Republic of Germany registered 217,774 first-time asylum applications in the year 2022, the most of any European Union member state. The number represents a 46.9% uptick compared to the previous year, and the highest number of applicants since 2016, the Hamburg-based newspaper Die Zeit reports.
The figure does not include the approximately one million Ukrainian refugees who have traveled to Germany following the onset of the Russo-Ukrainian war in February 2022.
“Here we are! We want to live in your country! Give us money!”