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

Afghanistan

Eritrea

Iran, Islamic Republic

Iraq

Nigeria

Pakistan

Russian Federation

Somalia

Syria Arab Republic (Syria)

Türkiye [+R]

B1 countries

Albania

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Chad

China

Congo, Democratic Republic

Egypt

Georgia

India

Moldova, Republic

Myanmar (Burma)

North Macedonia

Palestine

Serbia

South Sudan

B2 countries

Algeria

Azerbaijan

Bangladesh

Cameroon

Central African Republic

Colombia

Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)

Cuba

El Salvador

Ethiopia

Gambia

Guatemala

Guinea

Haiti

Honduras

Lebanon

Libya

Mali

Morocco

Mexico

Nicaragua

Niger

Senegal

Sudan

Tunisia

Ukraine

Venezuela

Viet Nam (Vietnam)

Yemen

C countries

Armenia

Belarus

Benin

Burkina Faso

Burundi

Cambodia

Chile

Ecuador

Ghana

Guinea-Bissau

Jamaica

Jordan

Kosovo

Kuwait

Malaysia

Mongolia

Montenegro

Nepal

Peru

Rwanda

Sierra Leone

Zimbabwe

Sri Lanka

Tajikistan

Uzbekistan

D countries

Angola

Argentina

Congo (Republic of the Congo)

Dominican Republic

Indonesia

Kazakhstan

Kenya

Kyrgyzstan

Liberia

Mauritania

Philippines

South Africa

Tanzania, United Republic

Togo

Uganda

E countries

Australia

Austria

Bahrain

Belgium

Bhutan

Bolivia

Botswana

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

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 11 September 2023.