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Number of Returns
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2.3 STATISTICS FOR VOLUNTARY RETURN
Total for 2002
Total for 2003
FIGURE 1
AVR NORDIC COMPARISON :
2002 AND 2003
Finland Denmark Norway* Sweden Total
Host Country
TABLE 4
AVR STATISTICS FOR FINLAND
Year Number of
Assisted Voluntary Returns
2000 1,827
2001 204
2002 131
2003 (January – September) 120
115
FINLAND
Finland received an unusually large number of manifestly unfounded asylum applications from
Poland and Slovakia in the summer of 2000. The government asked for IOM’s assistance in
returning these people and several charter flights were arranged, which explains why the figures
for 2000 were unusually high.
These figures include all assisted voluntary returns from Finland that were facilitated by IOM.