Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2025, Finland's asylum negative first-instance decisions increased by 78.8% compared to 2024, reaching 2,065.

Finland accounts for 0.4% of the EU-27 total of 506,860.

Finland 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 8.4% (from 1,905 in 2020).

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