Asylum first-instance decisions (total)

In 2025, Latvia's asylum first-instance decisions (total) decreased by 20.6% compared to 2024, reaching 520.

Latvia accounts for 0.1% of the EU-27 total of 832,625.

Latvia ranks 21st 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 333.3% (from 120 in 2020).

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