Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2016, Portugal's asylum negative first-instance decisions increased by 52.8% compared to 2015, reaching 275.

Portugal accounts for 0.1% of the EU-27 total of 412,785.

Portugal 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 grown by 450.0% (from 50 in 2011).

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