Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2023, Belgium's asylum negative first-instance decisions increased by 17.6% compared to 2022, reaching 15,435.

Belgium accounts for 4.8% of the EU-27 total of 319,540.

Belgium 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 64.8% (from 9,365 in 2018).

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