Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2025, Latvia's asylum negative first-instance decisions decreased by 22.3% compared to 2024, reaching 365.

Latvia accounts for 0.1% of the EU-27 total of 506,860.

Latvia ranks 20th 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 284.2% (from 95 in 2020).

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