Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2018, Germany's asylum negative first-instance decisions decreased by 60.7% compared to 2017, reaching 103,270.

Germany accounts for 29.6% of the EU-27 total of 349,110.

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 83.6% (from 56,235 in 2013).

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