Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2025, Spain's asylum negative first-instance decisions increased by 85.4% compared to 2024, reaching 72,655.

Spain accounts for 14.3% of the EU-27 total of 506,860.

Spain ranks 4th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 1.5% (from 73,745 in 2020).

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