Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2018, Malta's asylum negative first-instance decisions increased by 147.8% compared to 2017, reaching 855.

Malta accounts for 0.2% of the EU-27 total of 349,110.

Malta ranks 16th 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 185.0% (from 300 in 2013).

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