Eurodac usage: trends and figures

• Author: European Agency for the Operational Management of Large-Scale IT Systems in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (EU body or agency)
• Pages: 11-20

Eurodac  2019 Annual Report 11

3. Eurodac usage: trends and figures

The year 2019 sa w a slight increase in the usage of Eurodac compa red to 2018. The tra nsactions17 processed

by the Eurodac central system in 2019 amount to 916,536, showing an i ncrease of 4% compared to 2018.

During the last six years, Eurodac usage reached a record peak in 2015 (more than double compared to 2014),

then it decreased from 2016 until 2019 when a slight increase became visible (see Graph 1).

Graph 1: Data traffic in the Eurodac central system by year, 2014-2019

By the end of 2019, 5,690,524 fingerprint data sets were stored in the Eurodac central system. This represents

an increase of 6.2% compared to the previous year. There were substantial spikes in 2015 - almost doubling the

stored fingerprint data s ets - and in 2016, when one million additional fingerprints were stored. In subsequent

years, the number of stored fingerprints has been growing at a steady rate (see Graph 2).

Graph 2: Fingerprints stored in the Eurodac central system by year, 2014-2019

17 Here, the five main categories of Eurodac transactions are considered, i.e. categorie s from 1 to 5. For Category 1, only insertions are counted.