Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2021, Sweden's asylum negative first-instance decisions decreased by 30.0% compared to 2020, reaching 13,285.

Sweden accounts for 4.0% of the EU-27 total of 328,540.

Sweden ranks 6th 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 54.6% (from 29,255 in 2016).

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