Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2020, Bulgaria's asylum negative first-instance decisions increased by 61.8% compared to 2019, reaching 1,375.

Bulgaria accounts for 0.4% of the EU-27 total of 315,525.

Bulgaria ranks 14th 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 137.1% (from 580 in 2015).

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