Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2021, Malta's asylum negative first-instance decisions increased by 4.1% compared to 2020, reaching 630.

Malta accounts for 0.2% of the EU-27 total of 328,540.

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 grown by 157.1% (from 245 in 2016).

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