Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2020, Ireland's asylum negative first-instance decisions decreased by 63.1% compared to 2019, reaching 330.

Ireland accounts for 0.1% of the EU-27 total of 315,525.

Ireland ranks 20th 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 50.4% (from 665 in 2015).

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