a) The total number of cases processed per year for the past 10 years (First instance adjudication):
Year |
Total |
2009 |
157 204 |
2010 |
77 071 |
2011 |
43 953 |
2012 |
63 228 |
2013 |
68 241 |
2014 |
75 733 |
2015 |
60 640 |
2016 |
41 241 |
2017 |
27 980 |
2018 |
18 104 |
b) The cases granted for the past 10 years per country according to the Departmental system is as below:
Country |
Total |
Somalia |
36512 |
DRC |
25953 |
Ethiopia |
18022 |
Congo |
4859 |
Zimbabwe |
3432 |
Burundi |
2774 |
Angola |
2365 |
Eritrea |
2096 |
Rwanda |
1416 |
Bangladesh |
563 |
Uganda |
443 |
Cameroon |
368 |
Kenya |
143 |
Sudan |
134 |
Zambia |
69 |
Liberia |
51 |
Syria |
47 |
Palestine |
41 |
Ivory Coast |
37 |
Tanzania |
32 |
Pakistan |
28 |
Sierra Leone |
19 |
Sri Lanka |
15 |
Iraq |
15 |
Russia |
13 |
Togo |
12 |
Nigeria |
11 |
Ghana |
11 |
Solomon Islands |
10 |
Malawi |
9 |
Swaziland |
7 |
Central African Republic |
7 |
Ukraine |
7 |
Turkey |
6 |
Egypt |
6 |
Mali |
6 |
India |
6 |
Afghanistan |
5 |
Other |
5 |
Morocco |
4 |
Estonia |
4 |
Namibia |
4 |
Yemen |
3 |
Mozambique |
3 |
Bulgaria |
3 |
Myanmar (Burma) |
3 |
Lebanon |
3 |
Niger |
3 |
Iran |
3 |
Seychelles |
3 |
China |
2 |
Macau |
2 |
Bahamas |
2 |
Jordan |
2 |
Gabon |
2 |
Saint Kitts and Nevis |
2 |
Comoros |
2 |
Benin |
2 |
Lesotho |
2 |
Kyrgyzstan |
1 |
Guinea Bissau |
1 |
East Timor |
1 |
Poland |
1 |
Colombia |
1 |
Brazil |
1 |
Senegal |
1 |
Chad |
1 |
Oman |
1 |
Algeria |
1 |
Djibouti |
1 |
Sweden |
1 |
Cambodia |
1 |
Libya |
1 |
Principality of Andorra |
1 |
Grand Total |
99624 |
(c) As at 31 December 2018 there were 3 534 cases still to be processed by the Refugee Status Determination Officers.
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