asylum stay in europe but only a few find permanent refuge after going through all of that. the graph shows the number, the graph here, shows the number of asylum places each country granted per 1 million people. sweden granted the largest number of asylum applications relative to its small population of about 9.6 million. germany s population is more than 8 times the size of sweden but you can see it only granted 666 applications per million people over the last year. our data comes from the world bank and the european commission. july is going down as the world s hottest month on record. coming up, we ll look at what s behind the extreme weather.