Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2019, Sweden's asylum negative first-instance decisions decreased by 19.0% compared to 2018, reaching 19,465.

Sweden accounts for 5.7% of the EU-27 total of 339,830.

Sweden ranks 5th 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 107.8% (from 9,365 in 2014).

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