Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2021, Greece's asylum negative first-instance decisions decreased by 25.9% compared to 2020, reaching 20,630.

Greece accounts for 6.3% of the EU-27 total of 328,540.

Greece ranks 5th 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 136.0% (from 8,740 in 2016).

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