Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2019, Germany's asylum negative first-instance decisions decreased by 18.7% compared to 2018, reaching 83,935.

Germany accounts for 24.7% of the EU-27 total of 339,830.

Germany 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 47.6% (from 56,855 in 2014).

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