The UK has received over one million cumulative asylum applications worldwide since 2001

The cumulative number of asylum applications to the UK has exceeded one million, with Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and Albania being major contributors.

African countries such as Eritrea, Somalia, Zimbabwe, the DR Congo, and Nigeria have also been in the top ten.

These are the top ten nationalities in the past 23 years.

Source:

UK Home Office

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