MT · 2016 · migr_asydcfsta
Asylum first-instance decisions (total)
Malta, 2016
In 2016, Malta's asylum first-instance decisions (total) decreased by 3.7% compared to 2015, reaching 1,435.
Malta accounts for 0.1% of the EU-27 total of 1,075,745.
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 fallen by 10.6% (from 1,605 in 2011).
Source: Eurostat dataset migr_asydcfsta, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.