Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2021, Italy's asylum negative first-instance decisions decreased by 25.6% compared to 2020, reaching 21,745.

Italy accounts for 6.6% of the EU-27 total of 328,540.

Italy ranks 4th 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 60.1% (from 54,470 in 2016).

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