Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2024, Sweden's asylum negative first-instance decisions decreased by 54.3% compared to 2023, reaching 6,365.

Sweden accounts for 1.7% of the EU-27 total of 366,610.

Sweden ranks 9th 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 67.3% (from 19,465 in 2019).

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