Asylum applications in the EU by country of origin

In recent months, the EU has faced an unprecedented flow of asylum-seekers and other migrants. This massive arrival, mainly due to the Syrian civil war, is not a new
phenomenon, as the Syrian conflict started in 2011. In the second quarter of 2015, for
instance, Syrian and Afghan were the top two citizenships of asylum-seekers, lodging
around 44000 and 27000 applications respectively (see Figure 1).