Asylum first-instance decisions (total)

In 2021, Portugal's asylum first-instance decisions (total) increased by 20.2% compared to 2020, reaching 505.

Portugal accounts for 0.1% of the EU-27 total of 531,525.

Portugal ranks 21st 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 15.1% (from 595 in 2016).

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