Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2025, Malta's asylum negative first-instance decisions increased by 0.0% compared to 2024, reaching 300.

Malta accounts for 0.1% of the EU-27 total of 506,860.

Malta 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 fallen by 50.4% (from 605 in 2020).

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