Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2015, Bulgaria's asylum negative first-instance decisions increased by 34.9% compared to 2014, reaching 580.

Bulgaria accounts for 0.2% of the EU-27 total of 265,160.

Bulgaria ranks 18th 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 54.7% (from 375 in 2010).

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