Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2021, Germany's asylum negative first-instance decisions increased by 10.1% compared to 2020, reaching 72,895.

Germany accounts for 22.2% of the EU-27 total of 328,540.

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 fallen by 63.0% (from 197,270 in 2016).

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