Asylum first-instance decisions (total)

In 2020, Romania's asylum first-instance decisions (total) increased by 90.5% compared to 2019, reaching 2,505.

Romania accounts for 0.5% of the EU-27 total of 528,365.

Romania ranks 12th 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 89.8% (from 1,320 in 2015).

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