Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2024, Malta's asylum negative first-instance decisions decreased by 61.8% compared to 2023, reaching 300.

Malta accounts for 0.1% of the EU-27 total of 366,610.

Malta 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 52.8% (from 635 in 2019).

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