Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2020, Greece's asylum negative first-instance decisions increased by 81.2% compared to 2019, reaching 27,830.

Greece accounts for 8.8% of the EU-27 total of 315,525.

Greece ranks 5th 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 396.1% (from 5,610 in 2015).

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