Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2016, Spain's asylum negative first-instance decisions increased by 52.6% compared to 2015, reaching 3,395.

Spain accounts for 0.8% of the EU-27 total of 412,785.

Spain ranks 11th 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 40.9% (from 2,410 in 2011).

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