Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2014, Malta's asylum negative first-instance decisions increased by 58.3% compared to 2013, reaching 475.

Malta accounts for 0.3% of the EU-27 total of 184,160.

Malta ranks 18th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 46.3% (from 885 in 2009).

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