Asylum positive first-instance decisions

In 2016, Portugal's asylum positive first-instance decisions increased by 64.1% compared to 2015, reaching 320.

Portugal accounts for 0.0% of the EU-27 total of 662,965.

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 392.3% (from 65 in 2011).

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