Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2016, Cyprus's asylum negative first-instance decisions increased by 40.6% compared to 2015, reaching 675.

Cyprus accounts for 0.2% of the EU-27 total of 412,785.

Cyprus 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 73.6% (from 2,560 in 2011).

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