Sweden’s Migration Board in April estimated that 21,000 people will seek asylum in Sweden this year, 2,000 fewer than were estimated the agency’s February forecast.
On its website, the Migration Board states that the number of migrants seeking asylum in Sweden has nearly halved since the end of March due to conditions which have resulted from the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.
Individuals seeking asylum presently are those who were already in the country prior to the pandemic’s outbreak.
Based on the assumption that lockdown measures will be eased and travel restrictions will be lifted this summer, the agency expects the number of migrants seeking asylum in Sweden will be reduced from 23,000, as was forecasted in February, to roughly 21,000 for the year 2020.
If the migration agency’s 2020 projection are correct, the number of migrants seeking asylum this year will be comparable to the numbers seen in the previous two years. However, if coronavirus restrictions continue into the summer, the migration authority expects there to be significantly fewer asylum seekers this year.