Asylum first-instance decisions (total)

In 2025, Greece's asylum first-instance decisions (total) decreased by 17.3% compared to 2024, reaching 45,735.

Greece accounts for 5.5% of the EU-27 total of 833,835.

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 fallen by 26.4% (from 62,155 in 2020).

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