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In early 2022, we updated our country priorities. These priorities define which sources are covered on ecoi.net, i.e. which documents you can expect to find for a country. The update is based on Austrian, European and global asylum statistics and affects what sources we cover for what countries.
This update of country priorities also modifies the system of priorities itself: Priority "D" no longer stands for the countries of the Dublin Regulation. Instead, countries for which we cover basic information on asylum reception conditions, now receive the modifier "[+R]" (for "reception conditions"). When choosing these countries, we took into account the numbers of Dublin requests - both incoming and outgoing.
Coverage of sources
On ecoi.net, more than 160 sources are covered regularly, which means our editorial staff goes through the newest publications of these sources and adds them to ecoi.net if relevant. Coverage of sources is the most comprehensive for countries of priority A, and the least comprehensive for priority E. To ensure consistency, we use statistics from the past 3 years. Statistics on applications lodged in Austria and the EU are weighted slightly higher in our ranking.
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A Countries |
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Afghanistan Eritrea Iran Iraq |
Pakistan Russian Federation Somalia Syria |
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B1 Countries |
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Albania Chad China Congo, Dem. Rep. Georgia India |
Moldova, Rep. Myanmar (Burma) North Macedonia Palestine Serbia South Sudan |
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B2 Countries |
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Algeria Armenia Aserbaijan Bangladesh Central African Republic Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) El Salvador Ethiopia Gambia Guatemala Guinea Haiti Honduras Cameroon |
Colombia Cuba Mali Morocco Mexico Nicaragua Nigeria (previously A) Senegal Sudan Turkey [+R] (previously A) Ukraine Venezuela Viet Nam Yemen |
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C Countries |
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Bosnia and Herzegovina Burkina Faso Burundi (previously B) Cambodia Egypt (previously B) Ghana Kosovo (previously B) Lebanon Libya (previously B) |
Malaysia Niger Peru Sierra Leone Sri Lanka Tajikistan Tunesia Turkmenistan Zimbabwe |
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D Countries (priority redefined) |
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Angola (previously E) Belarus (previously E) Chile (previously E) Congo (Brazzaville) (previously E) Dominican Republic (previously E) Ecuador (previously E) Guinea-Bissau (previously E) Indonesia (previously C) Jamaica (previously E) Jordan (previously C) Kazakhstan (previously C) Kenya (previously E) |
Kyrgyzstan (previously E) Liberia (previously C) Mongolia (previously C) Nepal (previously C) Philippines (previously E) Romania [+R] Rwanda (previously C) Saudi Arabia (previously E) South Africa (previously E) Togo (zuvor E) Uganda (zuvor B) Uzbekistan (zuvor C) |
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E Countries (priority redefined) |
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Argentine Australia Austria (previously D) Bahrain Belgium (zuvor D) Benin Bhutan Bolivia Botswana Brazil Bulgaria [+R] (previously D) Canada Costa Rica Croatia (previously D) Cyprus (previously D) Czechia (previously D) Denmark [+R] (previously D) Djibouti Equatorial Guinea Estonia (zuvor D) Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) Fiji Finland (previously D) France (previously D) Gabon Germany (previously D) Greece [+R] (previously D) Guyana Hungary [+R] (previously D) Ireland (previously D) Iceland (previously D) Israel Italy [+R] (zuvor D) Japan Qatar Kuwait (previously C) Lao, Dem. P.R. Lesotho Latvia (previously D) Liechtenstein (previously D) |
Lithuania (previously D) Luxembourg (previously D) Madagascar Malawi Maldives Malta (previously D) Maledives Montenegro (previously C) Mosambik (previously C) Namibia New Zealand Netherlands (previously D) North Korea Norway (previously D) Oman Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Poland [+R] (previously D) Portugal (previously D) Sweden [+R] (previously D) Switzerland (previously D) Singapur Slovakia (previously D) Slovenia (previously D) Spain [+R] (previously D) South Korea Suriname Taiwan Tanzania, United Rep. Thailand Timor-Leste Trinidad and Tobago Uruguay United Arab Emirates United States United Kingdom (previously D) Western Sahara Zambia |
What country priorities mean for coverage of sources is best explained in reversed order:
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.
If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact us: info@ecoi.net.
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