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Published more: 2016-01-05 10:09 | SR - SVERIGES RADIO

2015 marks record year for asylum seekers

A refugee from Iraq gets fingerprinted in Malmö, as part of the process of registering as an asylum seeker. File Photo: Drago Prvulovic / TT.

Last year some 163,000 people applied for asylum in Sweden. That is more than any previous year, and about twice as many as came at the height of the Balkan wars in the 1990s. But not as many as the Migration Agency had estimated during the autumn.

Over the past seven days, just under 2,000 people applied for asylum in Sweden. That is about 1,000 fewer than just a few weeks ago, and much less than in...