BE · 2017 · migr_asydcfsta
Asylum negative first-instance decisions
Belgium, 2017
In 2017, Belgium's asylum negative first-instance decisions increased by 15.3% compared to 2016, reaching 11,480.
Belgium accounts for 2.3% of the EU-27 total of 504,835.
Belgium 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 fallen by 39.8% (from 19,085 in 2012).
Source: Eurostat dataset migr_asydcfsta, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.