Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2022, Malta's asylum negative first-instance decisions increased by 70.6% compared to 2021, reaching 1,075.

Malta accounts for 0.3% of the EU-27 total of 327,250.

Malta ranks 14th 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 211.6% (from 345 in 2017).

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