The U.S. Department of State has posted its fiscal year 2024 annual FOIA report. Here are the key metrics:

• Requests received jumped from 15,713 in FY 2023 to 22,306 an increase of nearly 42 percent. This is the second-highest number of requests received by State since FY 2008, exceeded only by its FY 2017 total of 27,852).

• Requests processed climbed from 12,576 in FY 2023 to 20,775 in FY 2024, an increase of 65 percent

• Backlogged requests decreased ever so slightly from 21,619 in FY 2023 to 21,615 in FY 2024.

• Backlogged appeals dropped from 272 in FY 2023 to 126 in FY 2024, a 53.6 percent decrease

• $0 collected for processing requests.

• $33.2 million in processing costs; $2 million in litigation-related costs.

• For all processed perfected requests, 563.92 average days by main DOS for “complex” requests.

• Ten oldest perfected requests have been pending between 4183 and 4289 days.