Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2017, Portugal's asylum negative first-instance decisions increased by 65.5% compared to 2016, reaching 455.

Portugal accounts for 0.1% of the EU-27 total of 504,835.

Portugal 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 grown by 250.0% (from 130 in 2012).

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