Asylum first-instance decisions (total)

In 2021, Malta's asylum first-instance decisions (total) decreased by 7.4% compared to 2020, reaching 810.

Malta accounts for 0.2% of the EU-27 total of 531,525.

Malta ranks 20th 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 43.6% (from 1,435 in 2016).

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