The statistics have been provided by governments, based on their own records. These statistics do not include persons who arrived in asylum countries and who have not submitted an individual asylum request. The statistics included in this document are provisional and subject to change.
Most countries provide statistics on the basis of citizenship.
Therefore, no precise figures are available concerning the number of Kosovo Albanians who applied for asylum. Evidence from Germany suggests, however, that the percentage of Kosovo Albanians among citizens from FRY who applied for asylum during August through October 1999 has fallen to less than 40 per cent, whereas the percentage of ethnic Roma fluctuates around 50 per cent. The share of FRY asylum-seekers in the total number of applications lodged increased from 27 per cent in 1998 to 31 per cent in 1999. As a result of the continued decrease, the share of FRY applications in the total number of asylum applicants in these 17 countries fell from 22 per cent in September to 18 per cent in October 1999. Eastern European countries experienced a recent, strong decline in FRY applicants.