Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2016, Ireland's asylum negative first-instance decisions increased by 147.4% compared to 2015, reaching 1,645.

Ireland accounts for 0.4% of the EU-27 total of 412,785.

Ireland ranks 15th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 27.0% (from 1,295 in 2011).

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