Asylum-Seekers by Country of Asylum

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: asylum-seekers-hosted-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Asylum-Seekers by Country of Asylum: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2025	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	177	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	177	0
Asylum-seekers awaiting a decision, end of year (people)asylum_seekersHeadline	The headline figure: Asylum-seekers awaiting a decision, end of year (people).	Number · whole numbers	020 share it3,718,945United Statesmiddle 1,836	156	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

The newest 12 of 26 years.

Not in this dataset · 33 places this site covers

UNHCR gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaAndorraBermudaBhutanChannel IslandsCook IslandsFaroe IslandsFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGuamIsle of ManKiribatiKosovoLaosMaldivesMarshall IslandsNew CaledoniaNiueNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPalestinePuerto RicoSaint MartinSan MarinoSão Tomé and PríncipeSeychellesSomalilandTaiwanTongaTuvaluUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency

   unhcr.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Asylum-Seekers by Country of Asylum 2025

   Read from the publisher’s own service.

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 26, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   26 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as asylum-seekers-hosted-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/asylum-seekers-hosted

Read from the UNHCR Refugee Population Statistics Database through UNHCR's own API, grouped by country of asylum. UNHCR rounds figures below five to the nearest multiple of five to protect confidentiality. Serbia's figure includes Kosovo, as UNHCR publishes it.