Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2014, Bulgaria's asylum negative first-instance decisions increased by 21.1% compared to 2013, reaching 430.

Bulgaria accounts for 0.2% of the EU-27 total of 184,160.

Bulgaria ranks 19th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 14.7% (from 375 in 2009).

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