Data for 2007

Asylum-Seekers by Country of Asylum, 2007

Name: Asylum-Seekers by Country of Asylum, 2007
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 2007, as UNHCR published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Asylum-Seekers by Country of Asylum, 2007 covers 154 countries. South Africa is highest, at 170,864; 12 countries share the lowest reading, 0. The middle country reads 516. Against 2006, 142 values changed (80 up, 62 down), 2 countries joined.

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Asylum-Seekers by Country of Asylum · Data for 2007

HighestSouth Africa

170,864

Lowest12 countries share it

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

154countries
1measure
2007the year it describes
127distinct valueswhole numbers, as published
Sep 26, 2026read from the publisher
CC BY 4.0licence

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Asylum-Seekers by Country of Asylum, 2007, 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, 2007: every country, as published by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.

South Africa`ZAF`Southern Africa	170,864
United States`USA`Northern America	83,855
Austria`AUT`Western Europe	38,424
Canada`CAN`Northern America	37,509
Germany`DEU`Western Europe	34,014
France`FRA`Western Europe	32,275
Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	28,448
Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe	27,686
Ecuador`ECU`South America	27,395
Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	15,247
Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	14,865
Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	13,471
Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia	11,879
United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe	10,800
Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe	10,729
Venezuela`VEN`South America	9,588
Somalia`SOM`Eastern Africa	8,705
Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	7,528
Sudan`SDN`Northern Africa	7,322
Malaysia`MYS`South-eastern Asia	6,834
Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	6,776
Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	6,641
Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	5,937
Syria`SYR`Western Asia	5,862
Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	5,840
Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	5,776
Kenya`KEN`Eastern Africa	5,762
Israel`ISR`Western Asia	5,734
Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	5,166
Republic of the Congo`COG`Middle Africa	4,791
Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	4,364
Gabon`GAB`Middle Africa	4,258
Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	4,156
Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	4,017
Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	3,121
Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe	3,074
Angola`AGO`Middle Africa	2,918
Libya`LBY`Northern Africa	2,771
Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	2,539
India`IND`Southern Asia	2,415
Iraq`IRQ`Western Asia	2,413
Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	2,180
Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	2,149
Eritrea`ERI`Eastern Africa	2,016
Central African Republic`CAF`Middle Africa	1,970
Mali`MLI`Western Africa	1,905
Hong Kong`HKG`Eastern Asia	1,891
Côte d’Ivoire`CIV`Western Africa	1,770
Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	1,632
Algeria`DZA`Northern Africa	1,587
Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	1,559
Japan`JPN`Eastern Asia	1,502
Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	1,500
Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand	1,459
Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe	1,283
Namibia`NAM`Southern Africa	1,201
Iran`IRN`Southern Asia	1,184
South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia	1,152
Argentina`ARG`South America	1,080
Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	1,002
Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	862
Rwanda`RWA`Eastern Africa	725
Yemen`YEM`Western Asia	713
Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	712
Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia	711
Kuwait`KWT`Western Asia	703
Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	697
Morocco`MAR`Northern Africa	667
Bosnia and Herzegovina`BIH`Southern Europe	616
Burkina Faso`BFA`Western Africa	601
Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe	578
Lebanon`LBN`Western Asia	569
Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa	546
Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	537
Peru`PER`South America	533
Benin`BEN`Western Africa	527
Panama`PAN`Central America	524
Chile`CHL`South America	507
Costa Rica`CRI`Central America	503
Djibouti`DJI`Eastern Africa	484
Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	447
Brazil`BRA`South America	404
Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	350
Guinea-Bissau`GNB`Western Africa	341
Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	309
Saudi Arabia`SAU`Western Asia	284
Eswatini`SWZ`Southern Africa	251
Cambodia`KHM`South-eastern Asia	237
Sierra Leone`SLE`Western Africa	226
Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	199
Sri Lanka`LKA`Southern Asia	196
Ethiopia`ETH`Eastern Africa	178
North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe	166
Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	158
Bolivia`BOL`South America	156
New Zealand`NZL`Australia and New Zealand	149
Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia	142
Togo`TGO`Western Africa	124
Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	97
DR Congo`COD`Middle Africa	96
Trinidad and Tobago`TTO`Caribbean	96
Liberia`LBR`Western Africa	88
Colombia`COL`South America	83
Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia	71
Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	69
United Arab Emirates`ARE`Western Asia	66
Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	63
China`CHN`Eastern Asia	59
Tunisia`TUN`Northern Africa	52
Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	50
Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe	46
Chad`TCD`Middle Africa	44
Mexico`MEX`Central America	44
Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe	44
Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe	38
Qatar`QAT`Western Asia	38
Oman`OMN`Western Asia	35
Bahrain`BHR`Western Asia	33
Uruguay`URY`South America	29
Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	25
Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	25
Singapore`SGP`South-eastern Asia	21
Nicaragua`NIC`Central America	19
Mauritania`MRT`Western Africa	18
Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	16
Honduras`HND`Central America	16
Turkmenistan`TKM`Central Asia	16
Niger`NER`Western Africa	14
Paraguay`PRY`South America	14
Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	12
Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	12
Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe	11
Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe	11
Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe	10
Liechtenstein`LIE`Western Europe	10
Papua New Guinea`PNG`Melanesia	10
Cuba`CUB`Caribbean	9
Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	5
El Salvador`SLV`Central America	5
Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	5
Georgia`GEO`Western Asia	5
Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	5
Afghanistan`AFG`Southern Asia	0
Antigua and Barbuda`ATG`Caribbean	0
Belize`BLZ`Central America	0
Gambia`GMB`Western Africa	0
Guatemala`GTM`Central America	0
Montenegro`MNE`Southern Europe	0
Myanmar`MMR`South-eastern Asia	0
Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe	0
Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	0
Timor-Leste`TLS`South-eastern Asia	0
Uzbekistan`UZB`Central Asia	0
Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia	0

02In 2007

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

South Africa170,864
United States83,855
Austria38,424
Canada37,509
Germany34,014

Lowest

Vietnamshared0
Uzbekistanshared0
Timor-Lesteshared0
Portugalshared0
Montenegroshared0

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 516. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032006 → 2007

Since 2006

What changed between 2006 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+2 / −0countries joined / left
142values changed, of 152 in both
80 · 62rose · fell
10unchanged

Rose most

South Africa131,107 → 170,864+39,757
Ecuador5,516 → 27,395+21,879
Greece13,499 → 28,448+14,949
Canada23,575 → 37,509+13,934
Sweden17,384 → 27,686+10,302

Fell most

United States124,194 → 83,855−40,339
Jordan19,233 → 350−18,883
Germany52,785 → 34,014−18,771
Kenya18,508 → 5,762−12,746
Netherlands13,068 → 5,840−7,228

+ Antigua and Barbuda

+ Trinidad and Tobago

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

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

How values are stored

127 distinct values among 154
Values are stored exactly as published. 12 countries share 0. Countries sharing a value share a position too.
Nothing missing
Every one of the 154 countries has every column.

05The 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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Cite this edition

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency (2007). Asylum-Seekers by Country of Asylum, 2007 [data set], describing 2007. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/asylum-seekers-hosted/2007

0626 held

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155 countries
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26 held, with the data dictionary, coverage and licence.
How it has moved, charted by country

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