Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2025, Romania's asylum negative first-instance decisions decreased by 61.4% compared to 2024, reaching 565.

Romania accounts for 0.1% of the EU-27 total of 506,860.

Romania ranks 18th 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 69.8% (from 1,870 in 2020).

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