Schengen Visa Statistics
Every year, the European Commission publishes various statistics about Schengen visas. The information they include is:
- Applications received
- Visas issued – uniform, multiple entry and limited territorial visas (LTV)
- Visas not issued
- Rejection rate
This information can be used to show the most popular Schengen countries by looking at the number of applications received and how easy it is to get an approved application and visa issued by looking at the rejection rate.
With that in mind, here are the Schengen countries visa statistics for 2023.
Schengen Visa Statistics
| Country | Uniform visas applied for | Total uniform visas issued (including MEVs) | Multiple entry uniform visas (MEVs) issued | Total LTVs issued | Uniform visas not issued | Not issued rate for uniform visas |
| France | 2,625,846 | 2,169,332 | 791,417 | 6,312 | 436,893 | 16.7% |
| Germany | 1,459,560 | 1,233,561 | 1,115,424 | 12,517 | 208,155 | 14.3% |
| Spain | 1,413,222 | 1,093,803 | 297,215 | 14,139 | 251,470 | 18.5% |
| Italy | 1,108,035 | 970,073 | 680,794 | 4,467 | 133,495 | 12% |
| Netherlands | 669,291 | 542,255 | 326,018 | 2,146 | 114,269 | 17.3% |
| Greece | 627,008 | 521,825 | 344,668 | 8,610 | 91,379 | 14.7% |
| Switzerland | 603,261 | 506,499 | 349,862 | 32,365 | 64,397 | 10.7% |
| Austria | 229,613 | 194,273 | 147,021 | 2,418 | 32,922 | 14.3% |
| Belgium | 225,951 | 166,053 | 94,854 | 401 | 60,148 | 26.5% |
| Hungary | 215,799 | 183,158 | 79,105 | 198 | 32,641 | 15.1% |
| Portugal | 207,654 | 173,927 | 92,414 | 613 | 33,220 | 16% |
| Sweden | 169,151 | 123,611 | 31,732 | 5,069 | 38,680 | 23.1% |
| Czech Republic | 138,840 | 114,058 | 39,359 | 552 | 24,218 | 17.4% |
| Poland | 124,057 | 105,219 | 56,103 | 1,298 | 18,564 | 14.8% |
| Norway | 108,536 | 91,079 | 20,594 | 1,282 | 17,457 | 15.9% |
| Denmark | 107,872 | 79,786 | 36,576 | 99 | 21,509 | 21.2% |
| Finland | 92,078 | 68,939 | 14,702 | 4,034 | 16,602 | 18.5% |
| Croatia | 38,511 | 29,785 | 18,454 | 376 | 7,561 | 20% |
| Malta | 33,306 | 20,270 | 8,223 | 41 | 12,261 | 37.6% |
| Lithuania | 30,668 | 26,156 | 15,227 | 396 | 3,911 | 12.8% |
| Iceland | 22,541 | 21,247 | 8,549 | 6 | 474 | 2.2% |
| Slovenia | 19,990 | 12,612 | 7,529 | 4,112 | 3,097 | 15.6% |
| Latvia | 18,897 | 16,394 | 9,124 | 295 | 2,208 | 11.7% |
| Slovakia | 13,468 | 11,605 | 5,943 | 203 | 1,752 | 12.9% |
| Estonia | 13,190 | 8,105 | 4,865 | 696 | 4,347 | 33.1% |
| Luxembourg | 11,227 | 9,151 | 5,362 | 140 | 1,354 | 12.7% |
| TOTAL | 10,327,572 | 8,492,776 | 4,601,134 | 102,785 | 1,632,984 | 16% |
From these statistics, France, Germany, Spain and Italy are the most popular Schengen countries that people want to visit as they have received the most applications during 2023.
For these countries, the rejection rate is relatively low when compared to how many applications they receive. Similarly, Malta and Estonia have higher rejection rates based on the number of applications they receive every year.
For more information and statistics, go to the website of the European Commission
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