Adjusted protection rate in Germany rises to 47.4 percent in the first half of 2026

The proportion of people seeking protection in Germany has recently been increasing again. At the same time, the number of asylum applications is falling, as the federal government announced. The so-called adjusted protection rate of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (Bamf) was 47.4 percent in the first half of 2026. In 2025 as a whole it was 37.5 percent.

Purely formal applications where the content of the application for protection is not examined are excluded from the adjusted quota. This means that asylum procedures for which another EU country is responsible are not included here.

An important reason for the increase in the adjusted protection rate is family protection. In the first half of 2026, protection status was granted on this basis in almost 21,200 cases. This corresponded to 45.6 percent of the positive decisions, which also took deportation bans into account, as the federal government announced in a response to a parliamentary question from the left-wing faction.

A particularly large number of those seeking protection in Germany come from Afghanistan. For them, the adjusted protection rate was 89.3 percent. Afghans also submitted the highest number of asylum applications. In the first half of this year, the federal government granted protection status to Afghans in almost 95 percent of decisions, the information shows.