Asylum positive first-instance decisions

In 2017, Latvia's asylum positive first-instance decisions increased by 96.3% compared to 2016, reaching 265.

Latvia accounts for 0.1% of the EU-27 total of 428,730.

Latvia ranks 22nd 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 960.0% (from 25 in 2012).

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