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ecoi.net does not cover publications for all countries to the same extent. Some sources will not be covered for countries with lower priority, while country-specific sources will be included for top priority countries. The priorities are based on asylum statistics.
The following country priorities define which sources are covered on ecoi.net, i.e. which documents you can expect to find for a country. The country priorities are based on European and global asylum statistics and affect the coverage of a wide range of sources and countries on ecoi.net.
More than 160 sources are covered regularly on ecoi.net. Our team of content managers regularly screens these sources’ publications for inclusion on ecoi.net. Countries from priority A receive the most coverage, priority E receives the least coverage. To ensure consistency, we use statistics from the past 3 years. Statistics on applications lodged in Austria, Germany and the EU are weighted slightly higher during our ranking.
Please see https://www.ecoi.net/en/about/our-sources/ for a list of the sources we regularly cover, which kind of publications we are covering for each of these sources, and for which country priorities they are covered.
A countries |
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Afghanistan Eritrea India Iran, Islamic Republic Iraq Nigeria |
Pakistan Russian Federation Somalia Syria Arab Republic (Syria) Türkiye [+R] Venezuela |
B1 countries |
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Albania Chad China Congo, Democratic Republic Egypt Georgia |
Moldova, Republic Myanmar (Burma) North Macedonia Palestine Serbia South Sudan |
B2 countries |
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Algeria Azerbaijan Bangladesh Burkina Faso Cameroon Central African Republic Colombia Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) Cuba El Salvador Ethiopia Guatemala Guinea Haiti Honduras |
Lebanon Libya Mali Morocco Mexico Nepal Nicaragua Niger Peru Senegal Sri Lanka Sudan Tunisia Ukraine Yemen |
C countries |
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Armenia Belarus Benin Burundi Cambodia Chile Congo (Republic of the Congo) Ecuador Gambia Ghana Guinea-Bissaa |
Jamaica Jordan Kosovo Liberia Mongolia Rwanda Sierra Leone Tajikistan Togo Uzbekistan Viet Nam (Vietnam) |
D countries |
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Angola Argentina Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Comoros Dominican Republic Indonesia Kazakhstan |
Kenya Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Malaysia Mauritania Philippines South Africa Tanzania, United Republic Uganda Zimbabwe |
E countries |
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Australia Austria Bahrain Belgium Brazil Bulgaria [+R] Canada Costa Rica Croatia Cyprus Czechia (Czech Republic) Denmark Germany Djibouti Equatorial Guinea Estonia Eswatini Fiji Finland France Gabon Greece [+R] Guyana Hungary [+R] Iceland Ireland Israel Italy [+R] Japan Korea, Democratic People's Republic (North Korea) Korea, Republic (South Korea) Laos, People's Democratic Republic Latvia Lesotho Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg |
Madagascar Malawi Maldives Malta Mauritius Montenegro Mozambique Namibia New Zealand Netherlands Norway Oman Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Poland [+R] Portugal Qatar Romania [+R] Saudi Arabia Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Spain [+R] Suriname Sweden [+R] Switzerland Taiwan Thailand Timor Leste Trinidad and Tobago Turkmenistan Uruguay United Arab Emirates United States United Kingdom Western Sahara Zambia |
Countries of priority E receive only the most important publications: publications explicitly produced in the asylum context, like guidelines/positions or COI query responses; the main annual reports (USDOS, HRW, ai, Freedom House); as well as reports from UN CAT.
Countries of priority D receive, additionally, reports of UN committees, including NHRI reports.
Countries of priority C receive, additionally, publications from most of our sources: for instance, IWPR articles, ICG publications, as well as NGO reports for UN committees. Also, while coverage for priorities D and E is limited to annual reports by ai and HRW, priority C receives their other publications as well.
Countries of priority B receive, additionally, either a general media source (like BBC) for priority B2, or a country-specific source (like the Afghanistan Analysts Network) for priority B1. Which one of these two options is decided per country, based on availability and feasibility.
Countries of priority A receive coverage of all of the above.
For a country with the modifier "[+R]", we include basic information on reception conditions.
For more information on how we decide what sources to cover for what countries, please see this 2022 blog post as well as this 2016 blog post explaining the process.
List is as of 1 November 2024.
ecoi.net is run by the Austrian Red Cross (department ACCORD) in cooperation with Informationsverbund Asyl & Migration. ecoi.net is funded by the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund, the Austrian Ministry of the Interior and Caritas Austria. ecoi.net is supported by ECRE & UNHCR.
