Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2025, Greece's asylum negative first-instance decisions increased by 20.7% compared to 2024, reaching 19,000.

Greece accounts for 3.7% of the EU-27 total of 506,860.

Greece ranks 6th 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 31.7% (from 27,830 in 2020).

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