Asylum first-instance decisions (total)

In 2019, Bulgaria's asylum first-instance decisions (total) decreased by 40.8% compared to 2018, reaching 1,250.

Bulgaria accounts for 0.2% of the EU-27 total of 546,700.

Bulgaria ranks 17th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 83.2% (from 7,435 in 2014).

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