Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2014, Ireland's asylum negative first-instance decisions decreased by 5.0% compared to 2013, reaching 660.

Ireland accounts for 0.4% of the EU-27 total of 184,160.

Ireland ranks 16th 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 78.1% (from 3,010 in 2009).

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