Asylum positive first-instance decisions

In 2020, Malta's asylum positive first-instance decisions decreased by 33.3% compared to 2019, reaching 270.

Malta accounts for 0.1% of the EU-27 total of 212,840.

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 78.4% (from 1,250 in 2015).

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