Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2024, Belgium's asylum negative first-instance decisions increased by 6.5% compared to 2023, reaching 16,445.

Belgium accounts for 4.5% of the EU-27 total of 366,610.

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 54.2% (from 10,665 in 2019).

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