Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2013, Germany's asylum negative first-instance decisions increased by 35.1% compared to 2012, reaching 56,235.

Germany accounts for 29.1% of the EU-27 total of 193,280.

Germany ranks 1st 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 390.5% (from 11,465 in 2008).

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