Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2025, Portugal's asylum negative first-instance decisions decreased by 8.0% compared to 2024, reaching 920.

Portugal accounts for 0.2% of the EU-27 total of 507,875.

Portugal ranks 15th 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 183.1% (from 325 in 2020).

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