Asylum first-instance decisions (total)

In 2020, Malta's asylum first-instance decisions (total) decreased by 15.9% compared to 2019, reaching 875.

Malta accounts for 0.2% of the EU-27 total of 528,365.

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 fallen by 41.3% (from 1,490 in 2015).

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