Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2023, Germany's asylum negative first-instance decisions increased by 19.0% compared to 2022, reaching 82,215.

Germany accounts for 25.7% of the EU-27 total of 319,540.

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 20.4% (from 103,270 in 2018).

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