Data for 2000

Asylum-Seekers by Country of Asylum, 2000

Name: Asylum-Seekers by Country of Asylum, 2000
Creator: UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
License: https://www.unhcr.org/what-we-do/data-and-publications/data-and-statistics/terms-use-datasets

Figures for 2000, as UNHCR published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Asylum-Seekers by Country of Asylum, 2000 covers 153 countries. United States is highest, at 386,303; 35 countries share the lowest reading, 0. The middle country reads 143.

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Asylum-Seekers by Country of Asylum · Data for 2000

HighestUnited States

386,303

Lowest35 countries share it

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

153countries
1measure
2000the year it describes
104distinct valueswhole numbers, as published
Sep 26, 2026read from the publisher
CC BY 4.0licence

01Values only

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Every country and every column of Asylum-Seekers by Country of Asylum, 2000, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

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Asylum-Seekers by Country of Asylum, 2000: every country, as published by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.

United States`USA`Northern America	386,303
United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe	88,600
Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	84,416
Germany`DEU`Western Europe	70,234
Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	46,240
Canada`CAN`Northern America	30,170
Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe	27,454
Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	21,418
South Africa`ZAF`Southern Africa	15,139
Iran`IRN`Southern Asia	12,228
Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	12,067
Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	11,164
Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand	10,877
Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe	10,800
Austria`AUT`Western Europe	9,945
Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe	8,813
Kenya`KEN`Eastern Africa	8,708
Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	7,865
Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	6,126
Lebanon`LBN`Western Asia	6,023
Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	6,014
Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	5,200
Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	5,015
Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	3,378
Sudan`SDN`Northern Africa	3,203
Gabon`GAB`Middle Africa	3,037
Syria`SYR`Western Asia	2,638
Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	2,466
Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	2,372
New Zealand`NZL`Australia and New Zealand	2,337
Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	2,266
Côte d’Ivoire`CIV`Western Africa	2,239
Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	1,948
Central African Republic`CAF`Middle Africa	1,735
Rwanda`RWA`Eastern Africa	1,716
Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	1,633
Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	1,627
Yemen`YEM`Western Asia	1,406
Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	1,304
Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	1,300
Argentina`ARG`South America	1,274
Uzbekistan`UZB`Central Asia	1,243
Namibia`NAM`Southern Africa	1,141
Costa Rica`CRI`Central America	1,089
Iraq`IRQ`Western Asia	945
Angola`AGO`Middle Africa	880
Republic of the Congo`COG`Middle Africa	875
Mali`MLI`Western Africa	710
Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe	689
Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	616
Turkmenistan`TKM`Central Asia	566
Chad`TCD`Middle Africa	544
Brazil`BRA`South America	528
Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia	488
Sierra Leone`SLE`Western Africa	458
Niger`NER`Western Africa	442
Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	440
Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe	410
Djibouti`DJI`Eastern Africa	407
Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia	386
Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe	379
Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	367
Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	360
United Arab Emirates`ARE`Western Asia	329
Israel`ISR`Western Asia	326
Algeria`DZA`Northern Africa	309
Burkina Faso`BFA`Western Africa	309
Japan`JPN`Eastern Asia	282
Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	261
Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia	233
Gambia`GMB`Western Africa	223
Libya`LBY`Northern Africa	208
Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	187
Saudi Arabia`SAU`Western Asia	173
Cambodia`KHM`South-eastern Asia	162
Ecuador`ECU`South America	147
DR Congo`COD`Middle Africa	143
Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	113
Panama`PAN`Central America	85
Togo`TGO`Western Africa	79
Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe	75
Bosnia and Herzegovina`BIH`Southern Europe	73
Venezuela`VEN`South America	72
Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	65
Chile`CHL`South America	63
Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa	62
Benin`BEN`Western Africa	58
India`IND`Southern Asia	58
Kuwait`KWT`Western Asia	56
Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	56
Guinea-Bissau`GNB`Western Africa	48
Hong Kong`HKG`Eastern Asia	41
Mauritania`MRT`Western Africa	41
South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia	37
Ethiopia`ETH`Eastern Africa	33
Belize`BLZ`Central America	32
Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	24
Malaysia`MYS`South-eastern Asia	21
Sri Lanka`LKA`Southern Asia	20
Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe	17
Colombia`COL`South America	12
Cuba`CUB`Caribbean	12
China`CHN`Eastern Asia	10
Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	10
Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	10
Nicaragua`NIC`Central America	10
Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	10
Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	9
Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe	8
Peru`PER`South America	7
Honduras`HND`Central America	6
Mexico`MEX`Central America	6
Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	5
El Salvador`SLV`Central America	5
Guatemala`GTM`Central America	5
Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	5
Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia	5
Tunisia`TUN`Northern Africa	5
Afghanistan`AFG`Southern Asia	0
Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	0
Bahamas`BHS`Caribbean	0
Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	0
Bolivia`BOL`South America	0
Cabo Verde`CPV`Western Africa	0
Comoros`COM`Eastern Africa	0
Eritrea`ERI`Eastern Africa	0
Eswatini`SWZ`Southern Africa	0
France`FRA`Western Europe	0
Georgia`GEO`Western Asia	0
Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	0
Haiti`HTI`Caribbean	0
Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	0
Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe	0
Liberia`LBR`Western Africa	0
Liechtenstein`LIE`Western Europe	0
Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe	0
Madagascar`MDG`Eastern Africa	0
Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	0
Morocco`MAR`Northern Africa	0
Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	0
North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe	0
Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	0
Papua New Guinea`PNG`Melanesia	0
Paraguay`PRY`South America	0
Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	0
Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe	0
Qatar`QAT`Western Asia	0
Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	0
Somalia`SOM`Eastern Africa	0
Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	0
Timor-Leste`TLS`South-eastern Asia	0
Uruguay`URY`South America	0
Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia	0

02In 2000

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

United States386,303
United Kingdom88,600
Netherlands84,416
Germany70,234
Belgium46,240

Lowest

Vietnamshared0
Uruguayshared0
Timor-Lesteshared0
Eswatinishared0
Somaliashared0

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 143. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

03Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

104 distinct values among 153
Values are stored exactly as published. 35 countries share 0. Countries sharing a value share a position too.
Nothing missing
Every one of the 153 countries has every column.

04The files

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What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency (2000). Asylum-Seekers by Country of Asylum, 2000 [data set], describing 2000. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/asylum-seekers-hosted/2000

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