Asylum first-instance decisions (total)

In 2020, Italy's asylum first-instance decisions (total) decreased by 56.4% compared to 2019, reaching 40,800.

Italy accounts for 7.7% of the EU-27 total of 528,365.

Italy ranks 5th 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 42.8% (from 71,345 in 2015).

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