Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2021, Belgium's asylum negative first-instance decisions increased by 11.4% compared to 2020, reaching 11,890.

Belgium accounts for 3.6% of the EU-27 total of 328,540.

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 grown by 19.4% (from 9,960 in 2016).

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