MT · 2017 · migr_asydcfsta
Asylum positive first-instance decisions
Malta, 2017
In 2017, Malta's asylum positive first-instance decisions decreased by 36.1% compared to 2016, reaching 760.
Malta accounts for 0.2% of the EU-27 total of 428,730.
Malta ranks 18th 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 47.0% (from 1,435 in 2012).
Source: Eurostat dataset migr_asydcfsta, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.