Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2020, Malta's asylum negative first-instance decisions decreased by 4.7% compared to 2019, reaching 605.

Malta accounts for 0.2% of the EU-27 total of 315,525.

Malta ranks 17th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 152.1% (from 240 in 2015).

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