migr_asydcfsta · 2012–2025
Asylum negative first-instance decisions
Eurostat migr_asydcfsta — First instance decisions on applications by type of decision, citizenship, age and sex - annual aggregated data. Data range: 2008 to 2025.
At a glance
In 2025, the EU-27 figure for asylum negative first-instance decisions was 506,860 .
That is a 38.3% rose versus 2024 (366,610).
Over the five years before that, the EU-27 aggregate moved 60.6% higher.
Across member states, Germany reported the highest value (185,405, 2025) and Hungary the lowest (15, 2025) — a ratio of 12360.3× between the two ends of the range.
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EU-27 · 2025
506,860
HIGHEST · 2025
Germany
185,405
LOWEST · 2025
Hungary
15
Map · 2025
15.0 185.4k
Ranking · 2025
Time series · top 12 countries + EU-27
- Germany 185.4k
- France 90.8k
- Italy 73.2k
- Spain 72.7k
- Belgium 21.0k
- Greece 19.0k
- Netherlands 8.1k
- Cyprus 7.9k
- Austria 6.9k
- Sweden 5.4k
- Poland 3.9k
- Bulgaria 3.7k
- European Union (27) 506.9k
Country × year heatmap · all values
10.0 262.7k
Member states · ranked by latest value
- #1 Germany DE · 2025 185,405
- #2 France FR · 2025 90,770
- #3 Italy IT · 2025 73,200
- #4 Spain ES · 2025 72,655
- #5 Belgium BE · 2025 21,000
- #6 Greece EL · 2025 19,000
- #7 Netherlands NL · 2025 8,120
- #8 Cyprus CY · 2025 7,895
- #9 Austria AT · 2025 6,935
- #10 Sweden SE · 2025 5,425
- #11 Poland PL · 2025 3,920
- #12 Bulgaria BG · 2025 3,700
- #13 Ireland IE · 2025 2,095
- #14 Finland FI · 2025 2,065
- #15 Portugal PT · 2025 920
- #16 Denmark DK · 2025 775
- #17 Luxembourg LU · 2025 585
- #18 Romania RO · 2025 565
- #19 Czechia CZ · 2025 450
- #20 Latvia LV · 2025 365
- #21 Malta MT · 2025 300
- #22 Croatia HR · 2025 260
- #23 Lithuania LT · 2025 160
- #24 Slovenia SI · 2025 155
- #25 Slovakia SK · 2025 70
- #26 Estonia EE · 2025 55
- #27 Hungary HU · 2025 15
By year
Source:
Eurostat · migr_asydcfsta