Asylum positive first-instance decisions

In 2018, Malta's asylum positive first-instance decisions decreased by 15.1% compared to 2017, reaching 645.

Malta accounts for 0.3% of the EU-27 total of 207,500.

Malta ranks 16th 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 59.8% (from 1,605 in 2013).

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