Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2025, France's asylum negative first-instance decisions increased by 5.8% compared to 2024, reaching 90,770.

France accounts for 17.9% of the EU-27 total of 506,860.

France ranks 2nd 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 35.1% (from 67,200 in 2020).

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