Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2022, Belgium's asylum negative first-instance decisions increased by 10.4% compared to 2021, reaching 13,125.

Belgium accounts for 4.0% of the EU-27 total of 327,250.

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 14.3% (from 11,480 in 2017).

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