Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2025, Belgium's asylum negative first-instance decisions increased by 27.7% compared to 2024, reaching 21,000.

Belgium accounts for 4.1% of the EU-27 total of 506,860.

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 96.8% (from 10,670 in 2020).

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