Denmark grants ‘historic’ low asylum requests in 2024

Denmark’s immigration approach has been influenced by the far-right parties for over 20 years, with Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, the head of the Social Democrats, pursuing a “zero refugee” policy since coming to power in 2019.

The country of around six million people registered 2,300 asylum requests last year.

“Last year, authorities granted the smallest number of residency permits to asylum seekers that we have seen in recent years,” Immigration Minister Kaare Dybvad Bek said in a statement, calling the figure “historic”.

The decline comes as the European Union is preparing plans on how they will implement overhauled rules for asylum seekers to be operational in mid-2026.