IE · 2017 · migr_asydcfsta
Asylum first-instance decisions (total)
Ireland, 2017
In 2017, Ireland's asylum first-instance decisions (total) decreased by 58.5% compared to 2016, reaching 885.
Ireland accounts for 0.1% of the EU-27 total of 933,565.
Ireland ranks 21st 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 5.9% (from 940 in 2012).
Source: Eurostat dataset migr_asydcfsta, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.