Asylum positive first-instance decisions

In 2019, Bulgaria's asylum positive first-instance decisions decreased by 45.9% compared to 2018, reaching 400.

Bulgaria accounts for 0.2% of the EU-27 total of 206,870.

Bulgaria ranks 17th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 94.3% (from 7,000 in 2014).

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