Asylum first-instance decisions (total)

In 2025, Austria's asylum first-instance decisions (total) decreased by 43.4% compared to 2024, reaching 17,870.

Austria accounts for 2.1% of the EU-27 total of 833,835.

Austria ranks 7th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 70.3% (from 10,495 in 2020).

Source: Eurostat dataset migr_asydcfsta, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.