Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2025, Austria's asylum negative first-instance decisions decreased by 22.9% compared to 2024, reaching 6,935.

Austria accounts for 1.4% of the EU-27 total of 506,860.

Austria ranks 9th 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 89.5% (from 3,660 in 2020).

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