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STATISTICS Minors applying for protection The available quantitative data show how Spain receives a very reduced fraction of the total applications for asylum in the European Union. In 2016, for instance, this figure was 1% of the total. Furthermore, in practice, the State turns down some 70% of such applications, according to the 2016 report by the Spanish Refugee Aid Commission (known by the Spanish acronym CEAR). For their part, applications for international protection filed by minors represent 25.2% of the total applications received according to the latest available data published by the Ministry of the Interior for 2015. In absolute terms, these figures represent 3,750 applications out of a total of 14,887. The origin of these applicants per continent is given in Table 1.
Table 1. International protection applications in spain by minors per continent in 2015 0-13 years of
14-17 years of
age
age
Total
Ă frica
214
77
291
AmĂŠrica
165
46
211
Asia
1858
387
2245
Non-recognized states
164
32
196
Central and Eastern Europe
804
716
88
Stateless
-
-
EU-28
3
Total
3120
3
630
3750
Source: Ministry of the interior.
Nevertheless, as shown in Table 2, most of these applications were turned down -- some type of protection was granted to only 389 of all minor applicants, i.e. 10.4% of the total. It should moreover be noted that Refugee Status and right of asylum to minors were granted only in a marginal proportion of these cases. Most of the accepted applications were authorised under what is known as the Right to Subsidiary Protection. Pursuant to the Asylum and Subsidiary Protection Act 12/2009, subsidiary protection is protection provided to nationals of other countries C4