UNHCR asylum applications
unhcr_get_asylum_applicationsRead-onlyIdempotent
Get asylum applications lodged per year (2000 to the latest year) by country of origin and/or asylum, split by default into application stage — new, repeat, appeal, and the combined stages some countries report — so new claims are not added to appeals of old ones. Counts given as cases are never added to counts of persons; each row states its unit. Decode stage, authority, and decision-level codes with unhcr_list_reference (topic asylum_codes).
Input Schema
TableJSON Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | No | Rows returned inline, 1–500 (default 100). Sorting runs over the full result first; a larger result is staged as a dataframe where dataframes are enabled. | |
| stage | No | Stage the full result as a dataframe even when it fits inline, e.g. to join it with another unhcr_get_* result in unhcr_dataframe_query. Where dataframes are unavailable it is ignored, and the notice says so. | |
| asylum | No | Country of asylum — where people sought or hold protection; for returns, the country they returned from — as ISO3 codes (DEU, TUR), case-insensitive, same rules as origin. At most 50 codes. Omit to sum every asylum country into one row, or set expand to list each. | |
| expand | No | List every country, one row each, for a dimension that origin or asylum leaves unfiltered: origin, asylum, or both. Default none, where an unfiltered dimension is summed into one row. Expanding a dimension that origin or asylum already filters is rejected. | none |
| origin | No | Country of origin — where people fled from — as ISO3 codes (SYR, AFG), case-insensitive. ISO 3166 alpha-2 codes (SY) are rewritten to ISO3 and echoed in applied_scope. UNHCR's own codes (GFR) are rejected with the ISO3 to pass instead, and country names are rejected: resolve a name with unhcr_list_reference (topic countries, name_contains). Each listed code returns its own rows; codes are never summed together. At most 50 codes. Omit to sum every origin into one row, or set expand to list each. | |
| stages | No | Keep only these application stages before summing, case-insensitive: N new, R repeat, A appeal, NA new and appeal together, NR new and repeat together, FA first and appeal, J judiciary, BL backlog, SP subsidiary protection; V and RA appear in the data without a published definition. ["N"] gives new applications only, the basis of UNHCR's headline figure. Omit for every stage. | |
| sort_by | No | Order of the full result before the inline cut. year (default) orders by year, then origin ISO3, then asylum ISO3; applied orders largest first, nulls last. | year |
| year_to | No | Last year of the window. When omitted, the window runs to the latest published year (latest_year in the result). A year past the latest published year is clamped to it and the clamp is reported. | |
| split_by | No | Procedure dimensions kept as separate rows: authority (government, UNHCR, or joint), stage (new, repeat, appeal, …), decision_level. Every dimension left out is summed. Default ["stage"]; [] gives one total per year and scope for each unit. Unit is always kept separate. | |
| year_from | No | First year of the window. When omitted, the window starts at the dataset's first year. A year before the dataset's first year is clamped to it and the clamp is reported; a window entirely outside the dataset's years is rejected. |
Output Schema
TableJSON Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| cap | No | The limit that was applied. | |
| rows | No | Inline rows, sorted, up to limit. | |
| error | No | Present when the call failed. Absent on success. | |
| shown | No | Rows returned inline. | |
| notice | No | Guidance for this result: empty-result hints, year clamps, where the full set was staged, or how to narrow. | |
| dataset | No | Present when the full result was staged as a dataframe; read its columns with unhcr_dataframe_describe, then query it with unhcr_dataframe_query. | |
| measure | No | stock: people in a situation on 31 December; flow: events during the year. | |
| complete | No | False when the server row cap stopped the upstream fetch; the notice says how many upstream rows were fetched and how to narrow. | |
| truncated | No | True when rows were cut at limit. | |
| data_notes | No | How to read the counts: stock or flow, rounding, the meaning of null, caveats. | |
| total_rows | No | Rows in the full result before the inline cut. When complete is false, the result is built from only the upstream rows fetched before the cap, so rows and summed counts can fall short of the complete result. | |
| attribution | No | Attribution UNHCR requires when these figures are reused. | |
| latest_year | No | Newest year this dataset publishes. | |
| applied_scope | No | The scope actually sent upstream, including clamped years and code rewrites. |