Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2017, Germany's asylum negative first-instance decisions increased by 33.2% compared to 2016, reaching 262,720.

Germany accounts for 52.0% of the EU-27 total of 504,835.

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 531.2% (from 41,625 in 2012).

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