The current answers are outdated, so I took the latest Schengen visa statistics and compiled the following chart for the last 3 years:
Schengen State |
In 2021 |
In 2020 |
In 2019 |
Slovenia |
97.07% |
66.94% |
78.36% |
Germany |
94.50% |
90.38% |
86.85% |
Estonia |
94.39% |
94.37% |
92.04% |
Austria |
92.79% |
61.20% |
49.28% |
Latvia |
89.77% |
82.63% |
78.98% |
Greece |
89.02% |
81.46% |
76.57% |
Luxembourg |
88.06% |
84.95% |
85.49% |
Italy |
87.27% |
76.50% |
73.57% |
Lithuania |
85.98% |
89.65% |
86.93% |
Finland |
83.81% |
90.22% |
90.25% |
Switzerland |
81.84% |
72.24% |
65.40% |
Poland |
81.28% |
84.95% |
76.45% |
Netherlands |
73.62% |
65.32% |
85.82% |
Portugal |
72.83% |
52.25% |
51.62% |
Belgium |
68.89% |
58.61% |
50.89% |
Slovakia |
68.32% |
71.91% |
60.64% |
Malta |
62.78% |
44.56% |
42.20% |
Czech Republic |
60.94% |
39.59% |
25.67% |
Spain |
59.00% |
40.83% |
44.36% |
Norway |
57.51% |
48.67% |
26.05% |
Denmark |
54.82% |
54.98% |
48.35% |
France |
53.34% |
33.43% |
29.78% |
Sweden |
50.42% |
44.81% |
26.89% |
Hungary |
46.26% |
57.46% |
45.48% |
Iceland |
18.19% |
13.45% |
8.80% |
Median |
73.62% |
65.32% |
60.64% |
As we can see, median values seem to be improving year-over-year, but unfortunately multi-entry visas are still not the default. Note that these are aggregate statistics for every consulate in the world. When applying in a specific country you want to download the latest Schengen statistics file and find the consulate with the largest percentage of multi-entry visas. I.e. for India the top consulates are as follows (I've filtered the data to consulates that issued at least 100 visas):
Country |
Share of multi-entry visas in India |
Germany |
95.34% |
Greece |
91.02% |
Switzerland |
90.90% |
Lithuania |
87.25% |
Austria |
87.08% |
Belgium |
85.13% |
Italy |
84.77% |
Denmark |
78.51% |
Luxembourg |
74.62% |
Netherlands |
61.72% |
Portugal |
59.55% |
Czech Republic |
49.09% |
Hungary |
48.72% |
Estonia |
48.13% |
Slovakia |
43.40% |
Finland |
36.23% |
France |
27.87% |
Poland |
26.31% |
Sweden |
22.14% |
Iceland |
18.84% |
Spain |
14.19% |
Norway |
8.07% |
So if I were applying for a Schengen visa in India, I'd definitely aim for Germany rather than France. Though of course another caveat is that we don't know if Germany is actually issuing 6+ months Schengen visas or just allows multiple entries on visas of short duration.