BRUSSELS – Sweden has said it is considering deporting between 60,000 and 80,000 people in the coming years whose asylum process has run out.
The EU's Eurostat agency says that in 2014, the latest available figure, 470,080 third-country nationals were ordered to leave the bloc, yet the number actually removed was only 192,445, or only some 40 percent.
Across the EU, there is increasing political urgency to raise the number of people being sent back. Here are some statistics from agencies in member states on their return rates:
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Britain (2014):
Enforced removals: 12,627
Voluntary departures : 27,552
Total : 40,179
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France (2015):
Enforced removals: 15,485
Voluntary departures: 14,111
Total: 29,596
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Germany (2015):
Enforced removals: 20,888
Voluntary departures: 37,220
Total: 58,108
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Austria (2015):
Enforced removals: 3,300
Voluntary departures: 5,100
Total: 5,100
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Belgium (2015):
Enforced removals: 5,894
Voluntary departures: 4,178
Total: 10,072
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Netherlands (2014):
Enforced removals: 4,400
Voluntary departures: 11,550
Total: 15,950
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