Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2019, Malta's asylum negative first-instance decisions decreased by 25.7% compared to 2018, reaching 635.

Malta accounts for 0.2% of the EU-27 total of 339,830.

Malta ranks 19th 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 33.7% (from 475 in 2014).

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