The situation in the South American country has caused around six million people to emigrate.
According to data released this Friday by the Asylum and Refuge Office (OAR) of the Spanish Ministry of the Interior, the European country granted protection for humanitarian reasons to 12,983 people in 2021, the vast majority of them Venezuelans (98.7%).
As a result of the political and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela and the recommendation of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the Spanish Government began to apply the protection formula for humanitarian reasons in 2019 to provide an adequate and consistent response with the asylum law for Venezuelans fleeing their country.
That same year, the Spanish OAR resolved 71,830 files of applicants for international protection, of which only 7,371, 10.26%, obtained refugee status or subsidiary protection.
5,354 people received refugee status, and 2,017 obtained subsidiary protection.
Colombians (1,169), Malians (1,120), Afghans (742), Syrians (718) and Ukrainians (568) were, by nationality, those who accumulated the most concessions among the cases resolved.
On the contrary, among the unfavorable answers, 18,614 corresponded to Colombians, followed by Peruvians (4,326), Hondurans (4,125), Venezuelans (2,808) and Salvadorans (2,329).
From January 1 to December 31, 201, an additional 65,404 applications were submitted. The main countries of origin of applicants for international protection in these twelve months were, in order, Venezuela (15,995), Colombia (11,567), Morocco (6,536), Mali (4,647) and Senegal (3,198).
By age, those who presented the most requests were those between 18 and 34 years old (35,910), followed by those between 35 and 64 years old (18,628) and 0-13 years old (7,828), among other groups. (I)
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