Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2020, Belgium's asylum negative first-instance decisions increased by 0.0% compared to 2019, reaching 10,670.

Belgium accounts for 3.4% of the EU-27 total of 315,525.

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 grown by 18.8% (from 8,980 in 2015).

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