Data for 2016

Asylum-Seekers by Country of Asylum, 2016

Name: Asylum-Seekers by Country of Asylum, 2016
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 2016, as UNHCR published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Asylum-Seekers by Country of Asylum, 2016 covers 175 countries. Germany is highest, at 587,306; 21 countries share the lowest reading, 0. The middle country reads 529. Against 2015, 153 values changed (95 up, 58 down), 3 countries joined, 3 left.

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Asylum-Seekers by Country of Asylum · Data for 2016

HighestGermany

587,306

Lowest21 countries share it

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

175countries
1measure
2016the year it describes
143distinct 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, 2016, 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, 2016: every country, as published by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.

Germany`DEU`Western Europe	587,306
United States`USA`Northern America	439,864
Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	245,926
South Africa`ZAF`Southern Africa	218,275
Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	99,896
Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe	83,040
Austria`AUT`Western Europe	76,382
France`FRA`Western Europe	62,764
Malaysia`MYS`South-eastern Asia	56,313
Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	49,844
Kenya`KEN`Eastern Africa	43,748
United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe	43,496
Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	41,872
Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	39,960
Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	35,600
Brazil`BRA`South America	35,451
Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe	30,778
Angola`AGO`Middle Africa	30,131
Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand	29,633
Libya`LBY`Northern Africa	29,221
Ecuador`ECU`South America	24,542
Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	24,098
Canada`CAN`Northern America	23,946
Israel`ISR`Western Asia	21,274
Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	21,022
Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	20,360
Japan`JPN`Eastern Asia	18,801
Sudan`SDN`Northern Africa	16,056
Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	16,030
Lebanon`LBN`Western Asia	13,724
Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	12,976
Somalia`SOM`Eastern Africa	12,792
Syria`SYR`Western Asia	12,484
Iraq`IRQ`Western Asia	11,488
Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	10,369
India`IND`Southern Asia	9,209
Yemen`YEM`Western Asia	9,088
Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	8,539
Djibouti`DJI`Eastern Africa	8,058
Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	7,505
Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	7,001
South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia	6,835
Republic of the Congo`COG`Middle Africa	6,672
Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	6,558
Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe	6,536
Algeria`DZA`Northern Africa	5,700
Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	5,559
Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	4,986
Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	4,854
Panama`PAN`Central America	4,465
Peru`PER`South America	4,368
Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	4,221
Argentina`ARG`South America	3,917
Costa Rica`CRI`Central America	3,626
Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	3,608
Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	3,412
Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	3,396
Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	3,318
Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	3,237
Chile`CHL`South America	3,218
Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	3,213
Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia	3,049
Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe	3,025
Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	2,750
Mexico`MEX`Central America	2,636
Belize`BLZ`Central America	2,427
Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe	2,186
Ethiopia`ETH`Eastern Africa	1,948
Morocco`MAR`Northern Africa	1,943
Gabon`GAB`Middle Africa	1,911
Chad`TCD`Middle Africa	1,908
South Sudan`SSD`Eastern Africa	1,790
Namibia`NAM`Southern Africa	1,664
Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	1,365
DR Congo`COD`Middle Africa	1,324
Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa	948
Venezuela`VEN`South America	900
Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	868
Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe	850
Kuwait`KWT`Western Asia	823
Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	787
Togo`TGO`Western Africa	777
Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	769
China`CHN`Eastern Asia	647
United Arab Emirates`ARE`Western Asia	605
Mauritania`MRT`Western Africa	573
Sri Lanka`LKA`Southern Asia	573
Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe	529
Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	464
Rwanda`RWA`Eastern Africa	456
Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia	431
Eswatini`SWZ`Southern Africa	377
Colombia`COL`South America	368
Oman`OMN`Western Asia	365
Uruguay`URY`South America	352
Nicaragua`NIC`Central America	338
Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	324
Central African Republic`CAF`Middle Africa	310
Nauru`NRU`Micronesia	309
Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe	309
Georgia`GEO`Western Asia	305
Mali`MLI`Western Africa	299
New Zealand`NZL`Australia and New Zealand	298
Côte d’Ivoire`CIV`Western Africa	276
Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	255
Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe	228
Benin`BEN`Western Africa	224
Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	205
Trinidad and Tobago`TTO`Caribbean	202
Cambodia`KHM`South-eastern Asia	170
Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe	151
Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	147
Qatar`QAT`Western Asia	143
Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia	133
Burkina Faso`BFA`Western Africa	126
Afghanistan`AFG`Southern Asia	123
Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe	122
Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia	120
Bahrain`BHR`Western Asia	111
Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	104
Iran`IRN`Southern Asia	91
Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	78
Liechtenstein`LIE`Western Europe	78
Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	75
Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	73
Montenegro`MNE`Southern Europe	73
Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	72
Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	71
Niger`NER`Western Africa	61
Curaçao`CUW`Caribbean	55
Bosnia and Herzegovina`BIH`Southern Europe	51
Saudi Arabia`SAU`Western Asia	51
Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	43
Suriname`SUR`South America	43
Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe	38
Paraguay`PRY`South America	31
Tunisia`TUN`Northern Africa	30
Guinea-Bissau`GNB`Western Africa	29
Cuba`CUB`Caribbean	28
Madagascar`MDG`Eastern Africa	27
Cayman Islands`CYM`Caribbean	24
Bahamas`BHS`Caribbean	17
Papua New Guinea`PNG`Melanesia	16
North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe	15
Liberia`LBR`Western Africa	14
Honduras`HND`Central America	10
Eritrea`ERI`Eastern Africa	8
Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	8
Aruba`ABW`Caribbean	5
Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	5
Macau`MAC`Eastern Asia	5
Mauritius`MUS`Eastern Africa	5
Sierra Leone`SLE`Western Africa	5
Sint Maarten`SXM`Caribbean	5
Antigua and Barbuda`ATG`Caribbean	0
Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	0
Bolivia`BOL`South America	0
Brunei`BRN`South-eastern Asia	0
Cabo Verde`CPV`Western Africa	0
El Salvador`SLV`Central America	0
Fiji`FJI`Melanesia	0
Gambia`GMB`Western Africa	0
Guatemala`GTM`Central America	0
Guyana`GUY`South America	0
Haiti`HTI`Caribbean	0
Hong Kong`HKG`Eastern Asia	0
Micronesia`FSM`Micronesia	0
Monaco`MCO`Western Europe	0
Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	0
Myanmar`MMR`South-eastern Asia	0
Samoa`WSM`Polynesia	0
Turkmenistan`TKM`Central Asia	0
Turks and Caicos Islands`TCA`Caribbean	0
Uzbekistan`UZB`Central Asia	0
Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia	0

02In 2016

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

Germany587,306
United States439,864
Türkiye245,926
South Africa218,275
Italy99,896

Lowest

Samoashared0
Vietnamshared0
Uzbekistanshared0
Turkmenistanshared0
Turks and Caicos Islandsshared0

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 529. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032015 → 2016

Since 2015

What changed between 2015 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+3 / −3countries joined / left
153values changed, of 172 in both
95 · 58rose · fell
19unchanged

Rose most

Germany420,570 → 587,306+166,736
United States286,177 → 439,864+153,687
Italy60,135 → 99,896+39,761
Türkiye212,368 → 245,926+33,558
Brazil20,798 → 35,451+14,653

Fell most

South Africa1,096,021 → 218,275−877,746
Sweden157,017 → 83,040−73,977
Hungary36,671 → 3,396−33,275
Finland24,340 → 5,559−18,781
Norway25,274 → 7,505−17,769

+ Aruba

+ Mauritius

+ Suriname

− North Korea

− Solomon Islands

− Timor-Leste

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

143 distinct values among 175
Values are stored exactly as published. 21 countries share 0. Countries sharing a value share a position too.
Nothing missing
Every one of the 175 countries has every column.

05The files

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Cite this edition

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency (2016). Asylum-Seekers by Country of Asylum, 2016 [data set], describing 2016. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/asylum-seekers-hosted/2016

0626 held

Other years

‹ The year before
Asylum-Seekers by Country of Asylum, 2015
175 countries
The year after ›
Asylum-Seekers by Country of Asylum, 2017
174 countries
All of them
Asylum-Seekers by Country of Asylum: every year
26 held, with the data dictionary, coverage and licence.
How it has moved, charted by country

07Questions