Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2016, Sweden's asylum negative first-instance decisions increased by 79.1% compared to 2015, reaching 29,255.

Sweden accounts for 7.1% of the EU-27 total of 412,785.

Sweden 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 grown by 93.9% (from 15,085 in 2011).

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