Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2016, Germany's asylum negative first-instance decisions increased by 81.9% compared to 2015, reaching 197,270.

Germany accounts for 47.8% of the EU-27 total of 412,785.

Germany ranks 1st 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 542.8% (from 30,690 in 2011).

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