Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2023, Ireland's asylum negative first-instance decisions decreased by 26.7% compared to 2022, reaching 645.

Ireland accounts for 0.2% of the EU-27 total of 319,540.

Ireland ranks 17th 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 279.4% (from 170 in 2018).

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