Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2021, Spain's asylum negative first-instance decisions decreased by 31.4% compared to 2020, reaching 50,590.

Spain accounts for 15.4% of the EU-27 total of 328,540.

Spain ranks 3rd 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 1390.1% (from 3,395 in 2016).

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