Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2017, Romania's asylum negative first-instance decisions increased by 67.3% compared to 2016, reaching 820.

Romania accounts for 0.2% of the EU-27 total of 504,835.

Romania ranks 17th 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 41.2% (from 1,395 in 2012).

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