Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2025, Bulgaria's asylum negative first-instance decisions increased by 18.0% compared to 2024, reaching 3,700.

Bulgaria accounts for 0.7% of the EU-27 total of 506,860.

Bulgaria ranks 12th 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 169.1% (from 1,375 in 2020).

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