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Asylum-Seekers by Country of Asylum, 2019

Figures for 2019, as UNHCR published them · stored as published, never rewritten

How many asylum-seekers were waiting for a decision on their claim for protection in each country at the end of the year. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, compiles it alongside its refugee figures; an asylum-seeker whose claim is accepted becomes a refugee, so the two are read together.

Asylum-Seekers by Country of Asylum, 2019 covers 176 countries. United States is highest, at 847,608; 15 countries share the lowest reading, 0. The middle country reads 1,043. Against 2018, 157 values changed (102 up, 55 down), 2 countries joined, 2 left.

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Asylum-Seekers by Country of Asylum · Data for 2019

HighestUnited States

847,608

Lowest15 countries share it

0

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

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Asylum-Seekers by Country of Asylum, 2019, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 176 countries · select a heading to sort

Asylum-Seekers by Country of Asylum, 2019: every country, as published by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.
United StatesUSANorthern America847,608
PeruPERSouth America487,049
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia328,257
GermanyDEUWestern Europe309,231
BrazilBRASouth America207,294
South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa188,235
SpainESPSouthern Europe133,030
GreeceGRCSouthern Europe105,684
FranceFRAWestern Europe102,140
CanadaCANNorthern America97,017
Costa RicaCRICentral America87,154
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand77,362
MexicoMEXCentral America69,451
EgyptEGYNorthern Africa66,309
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe61,947
JordanJORWestern Asia51,283
KenyaKENEastern Africa50,829
MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia50,619
ItalyITASouthern Europe47,030
LibyaLBYNorthern Africa40,718
IsraelISRWestern Asia38,479
NigerNERWestern Africa37,896
MalawiMWIEastern Africa30,293
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa30,178
TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa29,554

02In 2019

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. United States847,608
  2. Peru487,049
  3. Türkiye328,257
  4. Germany309,231
  5. Brazil207,294

Lowest

  1. Vietnamshared0
  2. Saint Vincent and the Grenadinesshared0
  3. Uzbekistanshared0
  4. Turkmenistanshared0
  5. Turks and Caicos Islandsshared0

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 1,043. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032018 → 2019

Since 2018

What changed between 2018 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −2countries joined / left
  • 157values changed, of 174 in both
  • 102 · 55rose · fell
  • 17unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Germany369,239 → 309,231−60,008
  • Italy105,606 → 47,030−58,576
  • Austria37,347 → 26,696−10,651
  • Tanzania39,659 → 29,554−10,105
  • Sweden37,892 → 28,006−9,886
+ Anguilla+ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines− Solomon Islands− Samoa

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

  • 151 distinct values among 176

    Values are stored exactly as published. 15 countries share 0. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 176 countries has every column.

05The files

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The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

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.

Licence: CC BY 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency (2019). Asylum-Seekers by Country of Asylum, 2019 [data set], describing 2019. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/asylum-seekers-hosted/2019

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