Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2023, Romania's asylum negative first-instance decisions increased by 71.4% compared to 2022, reaching 5,220.

Romania accounts for 1.6% of the EU-27 total of 319,540.

Romania ranks 10th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 645.7% (from 700 in 2018).

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