Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2018, Portugal's asylum negative first-instance decisions decreased by 8.8% compared to 2017, reaching 415.

Portugal accounts for 0.1% of the EU-27 total of 349,110.

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 144.1% (from 170 in 2013).

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