Dataset · UNHCR
Refugees by Country of Origin
34 years, 1992–2025 · 202 countries
How many refugees under UNHCR's mandate have fled each country, counted wherever in the world they are living at the end of the year. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, compiles it, and it is the standard world count of where the people who have had to leave their country come from.
This site holds every year from 1992 to 2025, read from UNHCR’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Refugees by Country of Origin · the file
- Newest
- Refugees by Country of Origin, 2025
- Held
- 34 years · 6,136 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
0134 years
Every year
Newest first. Each opens the full table for that year, and each downloads as a CSV.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Refugees by Country of Origin, 2025Newest | 202 | +4 −2 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Refugees by Country of Origin, 2024 | 200 | +2 −1 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Refugees by Country of Origin, 2023 | 199 | +4 −5 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Refugees by Country of Origin, 2022 | 200 | +3 −1 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Refugees by Country of Origin, 2021 | 198 | +4 −1 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Refugees by Country of Origin, 2020 | 195 | +2 −2 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Refugees by Country of Origin, 2019 | 195 | +4 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Refugees by Country of Origin, 2018 | 191 | +1 −3 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Refugees by Country of Origin, 2017 | 193 | +3 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Refugees by Country of Origin, 2016 | 190 | −3 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Refugees by Country of Origin, 2015 | 193 | +3 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Refugees by Country of Origin, 2014 | 190 | −2 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
Show all 34 years
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: refugees-by-origin-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
023 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2025 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 202 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 202 | 0 | |
Refugees under UNHCR's mandate from this country, end of year (people)refugeesHeadline | The headline figure: Refugees under UNHCR's mandate from this country, end of year (people). | Number · whole numbers | 010 share it5,224,131 Ukrainemiddle 1,272 | 177 | 0 |
Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.
03210 countries across every year
Who is covered
How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 |
| Americas | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 39 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 42 |
| Asia | 49 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 49 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 |
| Europe | 39 | 40 | 39 | 40 | 40 | 42 | 41 | 41 | 42 | 40 | 40 | 40 |
| Oceania | 10 | 11 | 9 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
| All | 190 | 193 | 190 | 193 | 191 | 195 | 195 | 198 | 200 | 199 | 200 | 202 |
The newest 12 of 34 years.
Who joined and who left
- 2025
+ Aruba
+ Cook Islands
+ Cayman Islands
+ French Polynesia
− New Caledonia
− Puerto Rico - 2024
+ Micronesia+ New Caledonia
− Palau - 2023
+ Bermuda
+ Marshall Islands+ Puerto Rico
+ Tuvalu− Aruba− Cayman Islands− Micronesia
− Liechtenstein
− Vatican City - 2022+ Micronesia
+ Luxembourg+ Palau− Marshall Islands - 2021+ Aruba
+ Finland
+ Kiribati
+ British Virgin Islands− Luxembourg - 2020
+ Anguilla
+ Andorra− Finland
− Monaco - 2019
+ Brunei+ Liechtenstein
+ Nauru+ Vatican City - 2018+ Luxembourg− Andorra− Brunei− Palau
Not in this dataset · 15 places this site covers
UNHCR gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
2 · Their file
Refugees by Country of Origin 2025
Read from the publisher’s own service.3 · Read by this site
September 26, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
34 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as refugees-by-origin-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored in whole numbers, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
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.
Read from the UNHCR Refugee Population Statistics Database through UNHCR's own API, grouped by country of origin. UNHCR rounds figures below five to the nearest multiple of five to protect confidentiality. Serbia's figure includes Kosovo, as UNHCR publishes it.
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked September 26, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
- Say what you changed
Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.
A credit line
Source: UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, Refugees by Country of Origin, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. Refugees by Country of Origin, 1992–2025 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/refugees-by-origin
The publisher’s own citation: UNHCR Refugee Population Statistics Database. Geneva: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Questions
Refugees by Country of Origin: questions and answers
What is the Refugees by Country of Origin?
How many refugees under UNHCR's mandate have fled each country, counted wherever in the world they are living at the end of the year. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, compiles it, and it is the standard world count of where the people who have had to leave their country come from.
Which years of the Refugees by Country of Origin can I download?
All 34, from 1992 to 2025, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.
Does UNHCR rank countries on it?
No, and this site does not order it either. The files hold values only.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to UNHCR. The licence text is linked on this page.