BG · 2017 · migr_asydcfsta
Asylum negative first-instance decisions
Bulgaria, 2017
In 2017, Bulgaria's asylum negative first-instance decisions increased by 79.1% compared to 2016, reaching 3,045.
Bulgaria accounts for 0.6% of the EU-27 total of 504,835.
Bulgaria ranks 12th 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 547.9% (from 470 in 2012).
Source: Eurostat dataset migr_asydcfsta, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.