List of sovereign states by refugee population

Under international law, a refugee is a person who has fled their own country of nationality or habitual residence, and cannot return due to fear of persecution on account of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. These recent migration movements are caused by a variety of reasons. Some refugees stay in refugee camps, some are urban refugees in individual accommodations, some stay in self-settled camps, and the location of some refugees is undefined or unknown by UNHCR.

By destination country of asylum

The below table is based on UNHCR data and does not include data for people of concern to the UNRWA or those not known to the UNHCR. These people have fled their country/territory of origin and registered with the UNHCR in these countries or territories.

UNHCR registered refugees by country/territory of asylum between 2012 and 2022 ^[a]

Country/territory of asylum	Refugees per 1,000 inhabitants in mid-2015 [1]	2022 [2]	2019 [3]	mid-2016 [4]	mid-2015 [5]	2014 [6]	2013 [7]	2012 [8]
Afghanistan	7.14	52,159	72,228	59,771	205,558	280,267	72	75
Albania	0.05	2,676	128	138	154	104	96	86
Algeria	2.42	99,107	98,604	94,232	94,144	94,128	94,150	94,133
Angola	0.64	25,514	25,802	15,555	15,572	15,474	23,783	23,413
Argentina	0.08	4,094	3,881	3,293	3,523	3,498	3,362	3,488
Armenia	5.22	34,634	17,985	17,886	3,240	3,190	3,132	2,854
Australia	1.51	54,430	76,764	42,188	35,582	35,582	34,503	30,083
Austria	7.13	258,613	135,955	93,250	60,747	60,747	55,598	51,730
Azerbaijan	0.14	6,414	1,108	1,193	1,357	1,299	1,380	1,468
Bahamas	0.02	10	12	13	7	13	15	30
Bahrain	0.20	255	255	271	277	311	294	289
Bangladesh	1.46	952,384	854,782	950,000 [9]	32,975	32,472	31,145	30,697
Belarus	0.14	19,715	2,734	1,650	1,369	925	604	576
Belgium	2.77	151,408	61,677	42,168	31,115	29,179	25,629	22,024
Belize		145	28			10	21	28
Benin	0.05	1,779	1,244	809	488	415	194	4,966
Bolivia	0.07	1,116	878	786	767	763	748	733
Bosnia and Herzegovina	1.78	274	5,248	5,271	6,805	6,890	6,926	6,903
Botswana	0.97	733	1,115	2,039	2,164	2,645	2,773	2,785
Brazil	0.04	67,522	32,860	9,689	7,762	7,490	5,196	4,689
Bulgaria	1.53	176,297	20,451	17,814	11,046	11,046	4,320	2,288
Burkina Faso	1.92	34,375	25,868	32,552	34,027	31,894	29,234	39,306
Burundi	5.00	84,636	78,473	57,469	54,126	52,936	45,490	41,813
Cambodia	0.01	24	61	66	80	63	68	77
Cameroon	13.27	473,887	406,260	348,672	288,552	226,489	107,346	98,969
Canada	4.19	140,621	101,760	97,332	149,163	149,163	160,349	163,756
Central African Republic	1.65	11,213	7,175	12,115	7,906	7,694	14,322	14,014
Cayman Islands	0.10	47		18	6	6	6	3
Chad	30.97	592,764	442,672	391,251	420,774	452,897	434,479	373,695
Chile	0.10	2,133	2,053	1,737	1,798	1,773	1,743	1,695
China	0.22	320,000	303,381	317,255	301,057	301,052	301,047	301,037
Colombia		1,607	646	258	219	213	224	219
Democratic Republic of Congo	2.14	520,544	523,734	451,956	160,271	119,754	113,362	65,109
Republic of Congo	13.65	41,557	25,670	46,457	61,492	54,842	51,037	98,455
Costa Rica	0.73	14,088	6,217	4,180	3,475	12,924	12,749	12,629
Ivory Coast	0.09	5,636	2,021	1,399	1,972	1,925	2,980	3,980
Croatia	0.17	20,638	916	304	669	679	656	690
Cuba	0.03	174	237	316	313	280	384	371
Curaçao	0.28		47	54	44	37	15	14
Cyprus	4.99	29,280	12,325	8,484	5,763	5,126	3,883	3,631
Czech Republic	0.30	435,212	2,058	3,644	3,137	3,137	2,979	2,805
Denmark	3.15	67,772	37,540	33,507	17,785	17,785	13,170	11,814
Djibouti	16.88	20,383	19,641	17,683	14,787	20,530	20,015	19,139
Dominican Republic	0.06	546	171	592	609	608	721	758
Ecuador	7.65	60,125	104,574	60,524	53,378	53,817	54,865	55,480
Egypt	2.53	294,632	258,401	213,530	226,344	236,090	230,086	109,933
El Salvador	0.01	104	52	45	48	35	44	45
Eritrea	0.58	119	199	2,342	2,944	2,898	3,166	3,600
Estonia	0.09	40,806	334	322	117	90	70	63
Ethiopia	7.24	879,598	733,125	791,631	702,467	659,524	433,936	376,393
Fiji	0.01	5	13	12	12	13	5	6
Finland	2.15	69,553	23,473	18,400	11,798	11,798	11,252	9,919
France	4.13	612,934	407,923	304,546	264,972	252,264	232,487	217,865
Gabon	0.60	205	459	931	1,008	1,013	1,594	1,663
Gambia	6.11	3,685	4,308	7,940	11,773	11,608	9,563	9,853
Georgia	0.41	27,839	1,360	1,531	1,060	442	356	329
Germany	3.10	2,075,445	1,146,685	669,482	250,299	216,973	187,567	589,737
Ghana	0.69	8,531	11,948	11,865	18,476	18,450	18,681	16,016
Greece	0.75	160,761	80,468	21,484	7,304	7,304	3,485	2,100
Guatemala	0.01	701	416	300	202	164	160	159
Guinea	0.71	2,199	4,965	5,068	8,704	8,766	8,560	10,371
Guinea-Bissau	4.82	24	1,852	9,263	8,684	8,684	8,535	7,784
Guyana	0.01	12	17	11	11	11	11	7
Honduras		164	76	16	23	26	16	16
Hong Kong	0.02	285	130		151	170	126	117
Hungary	0.42	35,370	5,772	4,748	4,192	2,867	2,440	4,054
Iceland	0.32	5,240	916	252	104	99	79	60
India	0.15	242,835	195,105	197,851	200,383	199,937	188,395	185,656
Indonesia	0.02	9,785	10,295	7,827	5,277	4,270	3,206	1,819
Iran	12.53	3,425,091	979,435	979,435	979,441	982,027	857,354	868,242
Iraq	8.17	273,716	273,992	261,864	288,035	271,143	246,298	98,822
Ireland	1.25	81,256	7,800	5,731	5,853	5,853	6,001	6,327
Israel	0.04	1,207	16,121	507	361	330	184	104
Italy	1.57	296,181	207,619	147,370	93,715	93,715	76,264	64,779
Jamaica	0.01	31	1	14	15	22	21	20
Japan	0.02	17,406	1,465	2,514	2,419	2,560	2,584	2,581
Jordan	89.55	3,062,851	2,967,046	685,197	664,102	654,141	641,915	302,707
Kazakhstan	0.04	308	524	653	662	633	584	564
Kenya	12.31	504,473	438,901	451,099	552,272	551,352	534,938	564,933
South Korea	0.03	3,825	3,215	1,807	1,313	1,173	548	487
Kuwait	0.16	684	692	939	593	614	635	674
Kyrgyzstan	0.07	274	353	339	433	482	466	437
Latvia	0.10	39,055	672	349	195	183	160	125
Lebanon	208.91	1,306,143	1,395,952	1,012,969	1,172,388	1,154,040	856,546	133,538
Lesotho	0.02	251	147	45	44	44	30	34
Liberia	8.85	620	8,238	18,990	38,904	38,587	53,245	65,901
Libya	4.47	2,208	4,739	9,310	27,948	27,964	25,561	7,065
Liechtenstein	2.89	524	132	163	107	103	97	102
Lithuania	0.36	67,638	1,826	1,288	1,055	1,007	916	871
Luxembourg	2.14	11,952	2,572	2,046	1,192	1,108	920	2,910
Madagascar		119	116	28	10	11	12	9
Malawi	0.54	35,162	14,086	9,392	8,963	5,874	5,796	6,544
Malaysia	3.26	134,554	129,095	92,054	97,385	99,086	96,868	89,210
Mali	0.88	60,637	26,670	17,512	14,970	15,195	14,316	13,928
Malta	14.58	11,098	8,911	7,948	6,095	6,095	9,906	8,248
Mauritania	19.36	100,981	84,909	48,148	50,851	49,635	66,767	54,496
Mexico	0.02	95,579	28,533	6,202	2,158	1,837	1,831	1,520
Moldova	0.10	105,374	423		389	335	250	185
Monaco	0.87	17	22	27	33	33	34	37
Mongolia		10	6	8	11	6	9	4
Montenegro	9.92	32,438	662	974	6,203	6,462	8,476	11,198
Morocco	0.06	7,907	6,656	4,771	2,144	1,216	1,470	744
Mozambique	0.17	4,992	4,708	4,671	4,552	4,536	4,445	4,398
Namibia	0.69	4,685	3,188	1,757	1,659	1,767	2,332	1,806
Nauru	50.60	45	763	506	506	389
Nepal	1.29	19,560	19,574	25,249	36,287	38,490	46,305	56,264
Netherlands	4.89	218,457	94,430	101,744	82,494	82,494	74,707	71,909
New Zealand	0.30	1,791	2,747	1,421	1,349	1,349	1,403	1,517
Nicaragua	0.06	312	327	331	361	280	189	129
Niger	4.29	255,307	180,006	166,093	82,064	77,830	57,661	50,510
Nigeria	0.01	91,275	54,166	1,367	1,279	1,239	1,694	3,154
North Macedonia	0.40	635	353	477	584	614	687	750
Norway	9.14	75,311	53,888	59,522	47,043	47,043	46,106	42,822
Oman	0.03	295	307	317	122	151	138	138
Pakistan	8.33	1,743,785	1,419,606	1,352,560	1,540,854	1,505,525	1,616,507	1,638,456
Panama	4.47	2,576	2,557	2,350	2,303	2,271	2,665	2,429
Papua New Guinea	1.27	10,524	9,707	4,955	4,929	4,929	4,797	4,802
Paraguay	0.02	5,420	1,016	204	161	153	136	133
Peru	0.05	6,543	2,879	1,649	1,407	1,303	1,162	1,122
Philippines		856	690	408	254	222	182	141
Poland	0.41	971,129	12,673	11,747	15,741	15,741	16,438	15,911
Portugal	0.07	59,777	2,387	1,194	699	699	598	483
Qatar	0.06	197	203	177	133	133	130	80
Romania	0.12	105,621	3,882	2,905	2,426	2,182	1,770	1,262
Russia	2.20	1,277,753	42,433	228,990	315,313	235,750	3,458	3,178
Rwanda	11.70	120,753	145,057	156,065	132,743	73,820	73,349	58,212
Saudi Arabia	0.01	454	320	133	184	534	532	550
Senegal	0.97	11,802	14,469	14,584	14,304	14,274	14,247	14,237
Serbia and Kosovo	3.97	26,521	26,433	29,522	35,309	43,751	57,083	66,370
Sierra Leone	0.22		443	683	1,371	1,372	2,817	4,204
Slovakia	0.15	96,563	977	990	799	799	701	662
Slovenia	0.14	8,705	751	462	283	257	213	176
Somalia	0.34	16,023	17,883	11,574	3,582	2,729	2,425	2,264
South Africa	2.12	66,596	89,285	91,043	114,512	112,192	65,987	65,233
Spain	0.13	317,751	57,761	12,989	5,798	5,798	4,637	4,510
Sri Lanka	0.04	504	1,045	604	848	511	145	110
Sudan	9.05	1,097,128	1,055,489	421,466	322,638	244,430	124,328	126,218
South Sudan	22.32	308,369	298,313	262,560	265,887	248,152	229,587	202,581
Suriname		25	52	1	1
Swaziland	0.42	1173		728	539	515	507	505
Sweden	14.66	277,726	253,794	230,164	142,207	142,207	114,175	92,872
Switzerland	8.45	182,474	110,168	82,681	69,390	62,620	52,464	50,747
Syria	7.95	593,844	583,443	19,809	149,200	149,140	149,292	476,506
Tajikistan	0.21	8,608	3,791	2,729	1,782	2,026	2,048	2,248
Tanzania	3.07	206,229	242,171	281,498	159,014	88,492	102,099	101,021
Thailand	1.63	94,472	97,571	54,251	56,947	75,137	78,970	84,479
Togo	3.07	9,300	11,968	12,491	21,877	21,778	20,613	23,540
Trinidad and Tobago	0.09	3,424	2,321	109	121	83	20	18
Tunisia	0.07	3,299	1,746	649	824	901	730	1,435
Turkey	23.72	3,568,259	3,579,531	2,869,421	1,838,848	1,587,374	609,938	267,063
Turkmenistan	0.01	14	22	27	27	35	45	46
Uganda	11.34	1,463,523	1,359,464	940,835	428,397	385,513	220,555	197,877
Ukraine	0.07	2,520	2,172	3,302	3,232	3,219	2,968	2,807
United Arab Emirates	0.05	1,399	1,247	895	424	417	603	631
United Kingdom	1.82	328,989	133,094	118,995	117,234	117,234	126,055	149,799
United States	0.84	363,059	341,711	272,959	267,222	267,222	263,662	262,023
Uruguay	0.08	1,115	516	312	289	272	203	181
Uzbekistan		13,026	14	27	118	125	141	176
Venezuela	5.68	29,341	67,755	7,861	5,647	5,052	4,340	3,644
Yemen	10.05	77,458	268,511	269,783	263,047	257,645	241,288	237,182
Zambia	1.64	61,159	57,521	29,350	25,737	25,578	23,594	25,653
Zimbabwe	0.40	10,475	8,959	7,426	6,085	6,079	6,389	4,356

By country of origin

The below table is based on UNHCR data and does not include data for people of concern to the UNRWA or those not known to the UNHCR. These people registered with the UNHCR outside of their country of origin.

UNHCR registered refugees by country/territory of origin between 2014 and 2010 ^[b]

Country/territory of origin	% of the country's population who were refugees in 2014 [10]	2014 [11]	2013 [12]	2012 [13]	2011 [14]	2010 [15]
Afghanistan	7.59	2,596,270	2,556,502	2,586,152	2,664,436	3,054,709
Albania	0.35	10,158	10,103	12,568	13,551	14,772
Algeria	0.01	3,524	3,660	5,673	6,120	6,688
Angola	0.04	9,484	10,286	19,258	128,664	134,858
Antigua and Barbuda	0.06	53	49	45	32	30
Argentina	0.00	318	388	447	518	557
Armenia	0.39	11,848	11,998	15,934	16,486	17,546
Australia	0.00	25	28	48	39	37
Austria	0.00	10	10	12	11	10
Azerbaijan	0.11	10,515	10,814	15,537	16,162	16,753
Bahamas	0.06	215	210	196	185	17
Bahrain	0.03	347	275	297	215	87
Bangladesh	0.01	10,881	9,725	10,156	10,052	10,046
Barbados	0.03	86	67	55	45	32
Belarus	0.05	4,300	4,397	6,191	5,925	5,743
Belgium	0.00	75	78	93	90	83
Belize	0.01	45	40	39	32	23
Benin	0.00	340	302	457	461	442
Bhutan	3.00	23,642	31,567	41,590	55,603	72,776
Bolivia	0.01	600	601	618	611	590
Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.57	21,841	26,756	51,767	58,515	62,910
Botswana	0.01	237	168	127	85	53
Brazil	0.00	977	985	1,076	1,045	994
Bulgaria	0.02	1,648	1,880	2,147	2,327	2,559
Burkina Faso	0.01	1,853	1,580	1,456	1,267	1,141
Burundi	0.67	72,493	72,647	73,363	101,288	84,064
Cambodia	0.09	13,062	13,713	13,993	15,184	16,301
Cameroon	0.05	10,766	11,427	13,382	15,163	14,963
Canada	0.00	95	99	119	105	90
Cape Verde	0.01	27	28	25	27	25
Central African Republic	7.88	410,787	249,044	162,442	160,736	162,755
Chad	0.11	14,855	15,237	15,844	18,720	21,583
Chile	0.00	579	596	1,152	1,189	1,170
China	0.02	210,802	195,133	193,453	190,369	184,602
Colombia	0.22	103,150	108,117	111,773	113,605	113,233
Comoros	0.08	581	513	454	422	368
Democratic Republic of Congo	0.69	516,563	499,355	509,082	491,481	476,693
Republic of the Congo	0.32	14,500	11,753	12,119	12,839	20,679
Costa Rica	0.01	417	463	325	331	352
Ivory Coast	0.32	71,966	85,652	100,717	154,824	41,758
Croatia	0.93	40,122	49,756	62,606	62,649	65,861
Cuba	0.06	6,502	6,460	6,724	6,849	6,470
Curaçao	0.02	35	35
Cyprus	0.00	10	10	11	11	13
Czech Republic	0.01	1,327	991	622	763	817
Denmark	0.00	12	10	9	9	9
Djibouti	0.10	879	762	640	602	566
Dominica	0.05	38	43	54	52	52
Dominican Republic	0.00	349	306	289	250	246
Ecuador	0.01	804	707	844	909	852
Egypt	0.02	15,903	12,810	10,016	7,934	6,911
El Salvador	0.18	10,965	9,635	8,171	6,720	4,976
Equatorial Guinea	0.02	174	200	228	258	305
Eritrea	6.08	330,541	273,063	248,024	220,745	205,458
Estonia	0.03	339	352	456	224	240
Ethiopia	0.09	86,870	77,122	74,939	70,586	68,832
Fiji	0.10	924	1,112	1,317	1,579	1,851
France	0.00	93	98	100	99	92
Gabon	0.01	172	176	183	173	165
Gambia	0.27	5,136	3,397	3,076	2,583	2,242
Georgia	0.17	6,681	6,778	9,261	9,612	10,143
Germany	0.00	176	175	182	174	164
Ghana	0.08	22,143	21,076	24,296	20,279	20,201
Greece	0.00	113	91	51	56	51
Grenada	0.30	324	330	316	323	345
Guatemala	0.05	7,483	6,615	6,388	6,088	5,679
Guinea	0.12	15,252	14,561	14,061	13,161	11,985
Guinea-Bissau	0.07	1,307	1,223	1,180	1,123	1,127
Guyana	0.09	700	800	801	771	749
Haiti	0.35	37,162	38,659	38,568	33,661	25,892
Honduras	0.05	4,159	3,300	2,613	1,966	1,302
Hong Kong	0.00	25	25	19	15	17
Hungary	0.01	1,267	1,220	1,087	1,238	1,438
India	0.00	10,436	11,041	14,258	16,232	17,769
Indonesia	0.00	9,562	9,640	10,051	10,659	11,085
Iran	0.11	82,191	75,070	75,938	72,347	68,795
Iraq	1.04	369,954	401,466	746,190	1,428,308	1,683,575
Ireland	0.00	10	9	9	8	8
Israel	0.01	979	1,041	1,340	1,335	1,301
Italy	0.00	67	66	66	58	50
Jamaica	0.06	1,692	1,503	1,407	1,252	1,057
Japan	0.00	262	157	172	176	152
Jordan	0.02	1,718	1,632	2,358	2,248	2,252
Kazakhstan	0.01	2,224	2,123	3,571	3,500	3,640
Kenya	0.02	8,553	8,586	8,950	8,745	8,602
Kiribati	0.00	3	20	33	33	33
North Korea	0.01	1,282	1,167	1,132	1,052	917
South Korea	0.00	481	500	558	514	585
Kuwait	0.03	981	977	1,197	1,120	988
Kyrgyzstan	0.04	2,451	2,301	3,489	3,162	2,744
Laos	0.11	7,482	7,744	7,983	8,087	8,413
Latvia	0.01	213	233	662	709	713
Lebanon	0.08	4,273	3,819	15,106	15,013	15,869
Lesotho	0.00	17	15	13	11	11
Liberia	0.31	13,545	17,531	23,401	66,752	70,089
Libya	0.07	4,203	3,314	5,249	3,335	2,309
Lithuania	0.01	183	220	491	528	515
Macau	0.00	5	1	1	10	10
Madagascar	0.00	281	296	300	288	269
Malawi	0.00	361	326	277	222	171
Malaysia	0.00	468	485	531	537	552
Maldives	0.01	36	31	24	21	19
Mali	0.81	139,267	152,828	149,942	4,295	3,663
Mauritania	0.85	34,113	34,252	33,765	39,929	37,733
Mauritius	0.01	94	81	62	42	28
Mexico	0.01	10,666	9,390	8,435	7,472	6,816
Moldova	0.05	2,233	2,207	6,148	6,264	6,200
Mongolia	0.07	2,163	2,059	2,114	1,985	1,724
Montenegro	0.10	607	546	4,054	3,698	3,246
Morocco	0.00	1,539	1,308	2,405	2,312	2,284
Mozambique	0.00	58	56	160	155	131
Myanmar	0.42	223,896	222,053	215,340	214,594	215,644
Namibia	0.05	1,253	1,143	1,098	1,073	1,017
Nepal	0.03	8,561	8,108	7,610	6,852	5,884
Netherlands	0.00	68	64	71	64	53
New Zealand	0.00	17	17	20	18	15
Nicaragua	0.03	1,587	1,538	1,531	1,468	1,431
Niger	0.00	739	683	832	819	803
Nigeria	0.03	54,563	25,465	18,020	16,840	15,639
Niue	1.11	18	14	10	7
North Macedonia	0.08	1,759	1,628	7,589	7,684	7,890
Norway	0.00	13	13	9	7	7
Oman	0.00	29	26	65	60	63
Pakistan	0.17	315,805	31,893	33,673	33,009	33,591
Palestinians (excl. UNRWA)	2.10	97,212	96,044	94,821	94,121	93,299
Panama	0.00	89	105	107	100	100
Papua New Guinea	0.00	288	221	174	128	89
Paraguay	0.00	94	95	101	91	86
Peru	0.01	4,343	4,768	5,212	5,491	5,834
Philippines	0.00	666	717	966	933	953
Poland	0.00	1,310	1,429	1,640	1,815	1,764
Portugal	0.00	31	32	32	28	30
Qatar	0.00	21	17	124	95	112
Romania	0.01	1,918	2,330	2,806	3,428	3,933
Russia	0.05	70,562	74,316	110,586	109,784	108,261
Rwanda	0.70	79,408	83,955	97,373	106,833	114,836
Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.04	23	15	12	9	7
Saint Lucia	0.50	922	710	566	433	334
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1.56	1,736	1,535	1,316	1,127	946
Sao Tome and Principe	0.01	22	31	32	33	33
Saudi Arabia	0.00	630	584	817	745	667
Senegal	0.16	23,118	19,822	18,724	17,722	16,267
Serbia and Kosovo	0.51	45,464	48,436	157,623	161,363	182,955
Seychelles	0.03	25	26	29	42	49
Sierra Leone	0.08	4,993	5,311	6,202	8,002	11,277
Singapore	0.00	59	65	68	67	76
Slovakia	0.01	319	323	239	269	158
Slovenia	0.00	26	28	34	32	38
Solomon Islands	0.01	70	61	61	72	75
Somalia	9.52	1,106,434	1,121,770	1,136,718	1,075,148	770,148
South Africa	0.00	424	423	420	429	380
Spain	0.00	60	56	52	43	42
Sri Lanka	0.59	122,010	123,083	132,721	136,605	141,063
Sudan	1.65	659,408	636,405	558,199	491,013	379,067
South Sudan	4.92	616,143	114,371	86,909	1
Suriname	0.00	17	17	15	20	25
Swaziland	0.01	161	109	65	43	36
Sweden	0.00	18	16	19	23	24
Switzerland	0.00	19	15	17	20	19
Syria	17.09	3,869,626	2,457,241	728,698	19,900	18,428
Tajikistan	0.01	725	662	674	612	577
Tanzania	0.00	858	1,040	1,122	1,163	1,144
Thailand	0.00	231	217	369	359	348
Tibet	0.47	15,069	15,065	15,000	15,068	15,082
East Timor	0.00	13	10	9	8	8
Togo	0.13	9,275	10,318	15,692	17,870	18,329
Tonga	0.02	22	18	13	10	6
Trinidad and Tobago	0.03	371	336	333	297	255
Tunisia	0.01	1,485	1,363	1,934	1,951	2,173
Turkey	0.08	63,892	66,575	135,370	139,778	146,793
Turkmenistan	0.01	484	519	723	726	738
Turks and Caicos Islands	0.04	15	15	14	14	1
Uganda	0.02	7,190	8,176	5,608	5,680	6,441
Ukraine	0.53	237,625	5,163	25,254	25,379	25,111
United Arab Emirates	0.00	90	90	584	486	424
United Kingdom	0.00	141	142	153	150	152
United States	0.00	4,987	4,760	4,453	3,777	3,025
Uruguay	0.00	124	147	171	184	186
Uzbekistan	0.02	4,795	4,952	7,088	7,164	6,886
Venezuela	0.03	8,009	8,395	8,208	7,577	6,701
Vietnam	0.34	313,417	314,106	336,939	337,829	338,698
Western Sahara	13.89	90,482	90,504	90,452	90,413	90,415
Yemen	0.01	2,631	2,428	2,593	2,322	2,075
Zambia	0.00	316	232	243	240	228
Zimbabwe	0.15	22,492	19,734	22,101	25,048	24,089
Stateless	0.28 [16]	27,915	20,202	19,673	18,171	16,909
Various/unknown		99,577	105,643	125,921	137,412	160,678

People in refugee-like situations by region

The table is sourced from the UNHCR Global Trends Report 2022. ^[17]

Continent	Refugees
North America	443,500
Oceania	79,600
Europe	3,435,700
South America	4,701,600
Asia-Pacific	10,084,900
Africa	6,988,900
Antarctica	0 (N/A)

See also

• List of largest refugee crises

Notes

1. Countries/territories with less than 10 refugees in the given time period (2012 to 2022) are not included in this table. These (20) countries/territories are: Aruba, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Grenada, Haiti, Macau, Micronesia, Palau, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Samoa, Sint Maarten, Seychelles, Singapore, Solomon Islands, East Timor, Tonga, Turks and Caicos Islands, Vanuatu, and Vietnam.
2. Countries/territories with less than 10 refugees in the given time period (2010 to 2014) are not included in this table. These (17) countries/territories are: Andorra, Brunei, Cayman Islands, Cook Islands, Finland, Gibraltar, Iceland, Luxembourg, Malta, Marshall Islands, Monaco, Norfolk Island, Palau, Samoa, San Marino, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.

References

1. http://www.unhcr.org/statistics/mid2015stats.zip (Tab14, third column)
2. "Refugee population by country or territory of asylum | Data". data.worldbank.org. Retrieved 2023-07-14.
3. "Refugee population by country or territory of asylum | Data". data.worldbank.org. Retrieved 2020-08-31.
4. "UNHCR Statistical Yearbook 2016".
5. http://www.unhcr.org/statistics/mid2015stats.zip (Tab1, second column)
6. http://www.unhcr.org/statisticalyearbook/2014-annex-tables.zip (Tab1, second column)
7. http://www.unhcr.org/static/statistical_yearbook/2013/annex_tables.zip (Tab1, second column)
8. http://www.unhcr.org/static/statistical_yearbook/2012/2012_Statistical_Yearbook_annex_tables_v1.zip (Tab1, second column)
9. Islam, N. The international medical community must act to help Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. British Medical Journal Opinion. 2018. URL: https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2018/03/12/nazrul-islam-the-international-medical-community-must-act-to-help-rohingya-refugees-in-bangladesh/
10. Calculated using country population data from 2014 (http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/DVD/Files/1_Indicators%20(Standard)/EXCEL_FILES/1_Population/WPP2015_POP_F01_1_TOTAL_POPULATION_BOTH_SEXES.XLS) and comparing to UNHCR data for the same year
11. http://www.unhcr.org/statisticalyearbook/2014-annex-tables.zip (Tab2, second column)
12. http://www.unhcr.org/static/statistical_yearbook/2013/annex_tables.zip (Tab2, second column)
13. http://www.unhcr.org/static/statistical_yearbook/2012/2012_Statistical_Yearbook_annex_tables_v1.zip (Tab2, second column)
14. http://www.unhcr.org/static/statistical_yearbook/2011/2011_Statistical_Yearbook_annex_tables_v1.zip (Tab2, second column)
15. http://www.unhcr.org/static/statistical_yearbook/2010/2011-SYB10-annex-tables.zip (Tab2, second column)
16. The UNHCR estimatated that there are around 10,000,000 stateless people. This number was used for calculation of percentage.
17. "UNHCR Global Trends Report 2022" . Retrieved 11 July 2022.

External links

• UNHCR Statistical Yearbooks