Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2018, Italy's asylum negative first-instance decisions increased by 39.0% compared to 2017, reaching 64,540.

Italy accounts for 18.5% of the EU-27 total of 349,110.

Italy ranks 3rd 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 603.4% (from 9,175 in 2013).

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