Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2019, Belgium's asylum negative first-instance decisions increased by 13.9% compared to 2018, reaching 10,665.

Belgium accounts for 3.1% of the EU-27 total of 339,830.

Belgium ranks 7th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 13.7% (from 12,355 in 2014).

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