Data for 2024

Asylum-Seekers by Country of Asylum, 2024

Name: Asylum-Seekers by Country of Asylum, 2024
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 2024, as UNHCR published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Asylum-Seekers by Country of Asylum, 2024 covers 180 countries. United States is highest, at 3,184,162; 23 countries share the lowest reading, 0. The middle country reads 1,578. Against 2023, 154 values changed (89 up, 65 down), 5 countries joined, 2 left.

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Asylum-Seekers by Country of Asylum · Data for 2024

HighestUnited States

3,184,162

Lowest23 countries share it

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

180countries
1measure
2024the year it describes
153distinct 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, 2024, 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, 2024: every country, as published by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.

United States`USA`Northern America	3,184,162
Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	638,948
Peru`PER`South America	539,957
Germany`DEU`Western Europe	348,903
Canada`CAN`Northern America	292,055
Mexico`MEX`Central America	266,710
Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	263,965
Kenya`KEN`Eastern Africa	219,647
Costa Rica`CRI`Central America	217,889
Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	207,278
Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	198,852
Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	154,083
United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe	124,783
South Africa`ZAF`Southern Africa	100,313
Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand	91,278
France`FRA`Western Europe	88,554
Libya`LBY`Northern Africa	76,675
Brazil`BRA`South America	74,018
Côte d’Ivoire`CIV`Western Africa	66,799
Ethiopia`ETH`Eastern Africa	63,055
Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	53,138
Malaysia`MYS`South-eastern Asia	52,926
Niger`NER`Western Africa	51,959
Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	46,840
Sudan`SDN`Northern Africa	44,593
Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	41,264
Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	37,105
South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia	35,843
Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	31,747
Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	31,711
Japan`JPN`Eastern Asia	31,293
Uruguay`URY`South America	30,827
Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	30,744
Angola`AGO`Middle Africa	30,267
Colombia`COL`South America	29,305
Austria`AUT`Western Europe	28,883
Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	28,244
Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia	27,553
Israel`ISR`Western Asia	26,147
Somalia`SOM`Eastern Africa	22,260
Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	21,149
Trinidad and Tobago`TTO`Caribbean	20,806
Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	18,880
Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe	17,010
Iraq`IRQ`Western Asia	16,882
Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	16,034
Rwanda`RWA`Eastern Africa	14,193
Yemen`YEM`Western Asia	14,094
Chile`CHL`South America	13,345
India`IND`Southern Asia	13,243
Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa	13,192
Morocco`MAR`Northern Africa	11,378
Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	10,992
Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	9,855
Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	9,643
Tunisia`TUN`Northern Africa	9,620
Djibouti`DJI`Eastern Africa	8,649
Central African Republic`CAF`Middle Africa	8,270
Panama`PAN`Central America	8,143
Chad`TCD`Middle Africa	7,779
Republic of the Congo`COG`Middle Africa	7,714
Mauritania`MRT`Western Africa	7,084
Ecuador`ECU`South America	7,023
Benin`BEN`Western Africa	6,993
Lebanon`LBN`Western Asia	6,748
United Arab Emirates`ARE`Western Asia	6,257
Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	5,981
Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	5,913
Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe	5,490
Algeria`DZA`Northern Africa	4,838
Syria`SYR`Western Asia	4,767
Argentina`ARG`South America	4,766
Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	4,386
Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe	4,285
Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	4,165
Saudi Arabia`SAU`Western Asia	3,907
New Zealand`NZL`Australia and New Zealand	3,559
Guatemala`GTM`Central America	3,370
Papua New Guinea`PNG`Melanesia	3,251
Suriname`SUR`South America	3,217
Eswatini`SWZ`Southern Africa	3,164
Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia	3,034
South Sudan`SSD`Eastern Africa	2,677
Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	2,628
Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	2,604
Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe	2,563
Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	2,089
Belize`BLZ`Central America	2,001
Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia	1,735
Paraguay`PRY`South America	1,578
Venezuela`VEN`South America	1,578
Burkina Faso`BFA`Western Africa	1,493
Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	1,470
Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	1,380
Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe	1,363
Namibia`NAM`Southern Africa	1,317
Togo`TGO`Western Africa	1,262
Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	1,228
Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe	1,224
Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe	1,220
Madagascar`MDG`Eastern Africa	1,173
Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	1,081
Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	1,065
DR Congo`COD`Middle Africa	1,041
Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	986
Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	975
Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	904
Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe	845
Kuwait`KWT`Western Asia	783
Georgia`GEO`Western Asia	764
Liberia`LBR`Western Africa	687
China`CHN`Eastern Asia	553
Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe	487
Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	462
Gambia`GMB`Western Africa	447
Oman`OMN`Western Asia	420
Afghanistan`AFG`Southern Asia	370
Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia	319
Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	298
Mali`MLI`Western Africa	294
Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	276
El Salvador`SLV`Central America	272
Sri Lanka`LKA`Southern Asia	268
Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	267
Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe	263
Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe	202
Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	191
Bosnia and Herzegovina`BIH`Southern Europe	190
Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	172
Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	172
Qatar`QAT`Western Asia	152
Montenegro`MNE`Southern Europe	150
Sint Maarten`SXM`Caribbean	144
Honduras`HND`Central America	139
Bahrain`BHR`Western Asia	121
Nauru`NRU`Micronesia	90
Gabon`GAB`Middle Africa	82
Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe	80
Mauritius`MUS`Eastern Africa	72
Guyana`GUY`South America	52
Bolivia`BOL`South America	46
Cuba`CUB`Caribbean	41
British Virgin Islands`VGB`Caribbean	36
Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	35
Liechtenstein`LIE`Western Europe	34
Guinea-Bissau`GNB`Western Africa	30
North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe	26
Bahamas`BHS`Caribbean	20
Cayman Islands`CYM`Caribbean	15
Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	15
Comoros`COM`Eastern Africa	13
Fiji`FJI`Melanesia	10
Barbados`BRB`Caribbean	8
Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	7
Antigua and Barbuda`ATG`Caribbean	5
Cambodia`KHM`South-eastern Asia	5
Dominica`DMA`Caribbean	5
Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	0
Aruba`ABW`Caribbean	0
Brunei`BRN`South-eastern Asia	0
Cabo Verde`CPV`Western Africa	0
Curaçao`CUW`Caribbean	0
Equatorial Guinea`GNQ`Middle Africa	0
Eritrea`ERI`Eastern Africa	0
Haiti`HTI`Caribbean	0
Hong Kong`HKG`Eastern Asia	0
Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	0
Iran`IRN`Southern Asia	0
Monaco`MCO`Western Europe	0
Myanmar`MMR`South-eastern Asia	0
Palau`PLW`Micronesia	0
Saint Kitts and Nevis`KNA`Caribbean	0
Saint Lucia`LCA`Caribbean	0
Sierra Leone`SLE`Western Africa	0
Singapore`SGP`South-eastern Asia	0
Solomon Islands`SLB`Melanesia	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 2024

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

United States3,184,162
Egypt638,948
Peru539,957
Germany348,903
Canada292,055

Lowest

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 1,578. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032023 → 2024

Since 2023

What changed between 2023 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+5 / −2countries joined / left
154values changed, of 175 in both
89 · 65rose · fell
21unchanged

Rose most

United States2,601,468 → 3,184,162+582,694
Egypt232,244 → 638,948+406,704
Pakistan61,648 → 198,852+137,204
Canada197,961 → 292,055+94,094
Kenya152,942 → 219,647+66,705

Fell most

Türkiye222,069 → 154,083−67,986
Central African Republic32,506 → 8,270−24,236
United Kingdom138,156 → 124,783−13,373
Germany361,493 → 348,903−12,590
Austria38,039 → 28,883−9,156

+ Antigua and Barbuda

+ Dominica

+ Equatorial Guinea

+ Palau

+ British Virgin Islands

− Nicaragua

− Vanuatu

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

153 distinct values among 180
Values are stored exactly as published. 23 countries share 0. Countries sharing a value share a position too.
Nothing missing
Every one of the 180 countries has every column.

05The files

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https://api.unhcr.org/population/v1/population/?limit=1000&yearFrom=2024&yearTo=2024&coa_all=true

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 (2024). Asylum-Seekers by Country of Asylum, 2024 [data set], describing 2024. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/asylum-seekers-hosted/2024

0626 held

Other years

‹ The year before
Asylum-Seekers by Country of Asylum, 2023
177 countries
The year after ›
Asylum-Seekers by Country of Asylum, 2025
177 countries
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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