Home Office · age: 18 to 29

Asylum claims: 18 to 29

4 periods to 2026 Q2

40,894people

Asylum claims for 18 to 29 totalled 40,894 people in the 4 periods to 2026 Q2, down 19.9% (10,162) on the 4 periods before.

  1. Home Office dataset
  2. Data_Asy_D01
  3. all rows; Age=18 to 29
  4. column “Claims
  5. sum of 304 rows per period
  6. published 27 August 2026

2009 Q1 to 2026 Q2

Asylum claims by age group: 2009 Q1 to 2026 Q2LabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour05k10k20102015202020252009 Q1: 3,948 people · published 27 August 20262009 Q2: 2,865 people · published 27 August 20262009 Q3: 2,537 people · published 27 August 20262009 Q4: 2,387 people · published 27 August 20262010 Q1: 2,203 people · published 27 August 20262010 Q2: 2,160 people · published 27 August 20262010 Q3: 2,179 people · published 27 August 20262010 Q4: 2,349 people · published 27 August 20262011 Q1: 2,459 people · published 27 August 20262011 Q2: 2,476 people · published 27 August 20262011 Q3: 2,558 people · published 27 August 20262011 Q4: 2,725 people · published 27 August 20262012 Q1: 2,463 people · published 27 August 20262012 Q2: 2,633 people · published 27 August 20262012 Q3: 3,083 people · published 27 August 20262012 Q4: 3,267 people · published 27 August 20262013 Q1: 2,895 people · published 27 August 20262013 Q2: 2,940 people · published 27 August 20262013 Q3: 3,175 people · published 27 August 20262013 Q4: 3,138 people · published 27 August 20262014 Q1: 2,944 people · published 27 August 20262014 Q2: 2,931 people · published 27 August 20262014 Q3: 3,758 people · published 27 August 20262014 Q4: 3,510 people · published 27 August 20262015 Q1: 3,186 people · published 27 August 20262015 Q2: 3,503 people · published 27 August 20262015 Q3: 6,015 people · published 27 August 20262015 Q4: 5,785 people · published 27 August 20262016 Q1: 4,356 people · published 27 August 20262016 Q2: 3,862 people · published 27 August 20262016 Q3: 3,423 people · published 27 August 20262016 Q4: 3,194 people · published 27 August 20262017 Q1: 3,003 people · published 27 August 20262017 Q2: 2,863 people · published 27 August 20262017 Q3: 3,066 people · published 27 August 20262017 Q4: 3,467 people · published 27 August 20262018 Q1: 3,007 people · published 27 August 20262018 Q2: 3,025 people · published 27 August 20262018 Q3: 3,406 people · published 27 August 20262018 Q4: 4,077 people · published 27 August 20262019 Q1: 4,074 people · published 27 August 20262019 Q2: 3,370 people · published 27 August 20262019 Q3: 4,065 people · published 27 August 20262019 Q4: 4,581 people · published 27 August 20262020 Q1: 3,934 people · published 27 August 20262020 Q2: 2,356 people · published 27 August 20262020 Q3: 4,130 people · published 27 August 20262020 Q4: 3,993 people · published 27 August 20262021 Q1: 3,046 people · published 27 August 20262021 Q2: 4,851 people · published 27 August 20262021 Q3: 8,845 people · published 27 August 20262021 Q4: 11,443 people · published 27 August 20262022 Q1: 6,703 people · published 27 August 20262022 Q2: 8,603 people · published 27 August 20262022 Q3: 14,292 people · published 27 August 20262022 Q4: 13,440 people · published 27 August 20262023 Q1: 7,613 people · published 27 August 20262023 Q2: 8,488 people · published 27 August 20262023 Q3: 12,361 people · published 27 August 20262023 Q4: 9,862 people · published 27 August 20262024 Q1: 9,546 people · published 27 August 20262024 Q2: 10,621 people · published 27 August 20262024 Q3: 13,461 people · published 27 August 20262024 Q4: 14,518 people · published 27 August 20262025 Q1: 9,993 people · published 27 August 20262025 Q2: 13,084 people · published 27 August 20262025 Q3: 14,567 people · published 27 August 20262025 Q4: 10,915 people · published 27 August 20262026 Q1: 7,182 people · published 27 August 20262026 Q2: 8,230 people · published 27 August 2026

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What this measures

The number of people (main applicants and their dependants) who claimed asylum in the UK in each quarter, split by age group at the time of the claim.

Ages established by later age assessment, or the number of cases (main applicants only).

Source

Dataset
Immigration system statistics: asylum claims and initial decisions datasets
Release
Year ending June 2026, published 27 August 2026 · sha256 10788dae8042fdb4
All values
Asylum claims by age