Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2013, Malta's asylum negative first-instance decisions increased by 93.5% compared to 2012, reaching 300.

Malta accounts for 0.2% of the EU-27 total of 193,280.

Malta 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 76.5% (from 1,275 in 2008).

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