Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2025, Italy's asylum negative first-instance decisions increased by 45.3% compared to 2024, reaching 73,200.

Italy accounts for 14.4% of the EU-27 total of 506,860.

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 150.6% (from 29,215 in 2020).

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