Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2018, Romania's asylum negative first-instance decisions decreased by 14.6% compared to 2017, reaching 700.

Romania accounts for 0.2% of the EU-27 total of 349,110.

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 grown by 35.9% (from 515 in 2013).

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