Asylum applications
Number of people applying for asylum in the UK each quarter.
101.9k applications
-2.7% vs 2024
As of 2025
Historical trend
Trend summary
Asylum applications was 101.9k in 2025, down from 104.8k in 2024.
Trend
- Over the available record (2010–2025), it has ranged from 22.6k in 2010 to 104.8k in 2024.
- The latest reading is above the record average of 51.3k.
Context
- Home Office publishes asylum statistics quarterly; figures cover main applicants only, excluding dependants.
- Applications include people arriving via all routes, not only small boat crossings.
Generated from the published series — describes direction, magnitude and range only, with no editorial judgement or forecasts.
About this indicator
- Source
- Home Office
- Update frequency
- Quarterly
- Last updated
- 18 September 2026
- Next update
- 18 December 2026
- Licence
- OGL v3
- Direction
- ↓ Falling
Statistics
- Latest
- 101.9kapplications
- Period high
- 104.8kapplications
- Period low
- 101.9kapplications
- Period average
- 103.3kapplications