Asylum positive first-instance decisions

In 2025, the EU-27 figure for asylum positive first-instance decisions was 325,765 .

That is a 16.0% fell versus 2024 (387,615).

Over the five years before that, the EU-27 aggregate moved 53.1% higher.

Across member states, Germany reported the highest value (87,395, 2025) and Croatia the lowest (25, 2025) — a ratio of 3495.8× between the two ends of the range.

The figures below come from Eurostat dataset migr_asydcfsta; every value links back to the canonical source.