Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2023, Sweden's asylum negative first-instance decisions increased by 16.1% compared to 2022, reaching 13,920.

Sweden accounts for 4.4% of the EU-27 total of 319,540.

Sweden ranks 8th 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 42.1% (from 24,045 in 2018).

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