Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2020, Spain's asylum negative first-instance decisions increased by 275.9% compared to 2019, reaching 73,745.

Spain accounts for 23.4% of the EU-27 total of 315,525.

Spain ranks 1st out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 3214.4% (from 2,225 in 2015).

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