Yesterday, the BAMF head Jutta Cordt and the German Interior Minister de Maziere presented the statistics for 2017:
186,644 new requests for asylum in 2017
compared to:
280,000 new in 2016
890,000 new in 2015
The asylum requests submitted in 2017 took on average 2 months.
4 out of 10 requests are accepted (mostly temporary status as recognized refugee).
http://www.dw.com/en/refugee-numbers-in-germany-dropped-dramatically-in-2017/a-42162223
Here is the 1h15min video of the whole presentation:
https://www.welt.de/videos/video172516365/Fluechtlinge-Deutlich-weniger-Asylbewerber-2017.html
And for comparison our neighbor Austria: In 2017 24,296 people submitted a request for asylum in Austria (compared to almost 90,000 in 2015):