Data for 2002

Refugee Population by Country of Asylum, 2002

Name: Refugee Population by Country of Asylum, 2002
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 2002, as UNHCR published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Refugee Population by Country of Asylum, 2002 covers 149 countries. Iran is highest, at 1,306,599; 5 countries share the lowest reading, 0. The middle country reads 5,760. Against 2001, 138 values changed (79 up, 59 down), 2 left.

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Refugee Population by Country of Asylum · Data for 2002

HighestIran

1,306,599

Lowest5 countries share it

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

149countries
1measure
2002the year it describes
145distinct valueswhole numbers, as published
Sep 26, 2026read from the publisher
CC BY 4.0licence

01Values only

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Every country and every column of Refugee Population by Country of Asylum, 2002, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

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Refugee Population by Country of Asylum, 2002: every country, as published by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.

Iran`IRN`Southern Asia	1,306,599
Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	1,227,429
Germany`DEU`Western Europe	980,001
Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	689,373
United States`USA`Northern America	485,173
Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe	354,400
DR Congo`COD`Middle Africa	332,978
Sudan`SDN`Northern Africa	328,177
China`CHN`Eastern Asia	297,273
United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe	260,687
Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	247,549
Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	246,765
Saudi Arabia`SAU`Western Asia	245,290
Kenya`KEN`Eastern Africa	233,671
Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	217,301
Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	182,164
Algeria`DZA`Northern Africa	169,233
India`IND`Southern Asia	168,853
Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	148,349
Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe	142,170
Iraq`IRQ`Western Asia	134,190
Ethiopia`ETH`Eastern Africa	132,939
Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	132,432
France`FRA`Western Europe	132,182
Canada`CAN`Northern America	129,935
Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	112,614
Republic of the Congo`COG`Middle Africa	109,201
Yemen`YEM`Western Asia	82,795
Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	80,488
Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	73,600
Liberia`LBR`Western Africa	64,946
Sierra Leone`SLE`Western Africa	63,491
Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand	59,422
Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	58,288
Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe	54,081
Central African Republic`CAF`Middle Africa	50,720
Malaysia`MYS`South-eastern Asia	50,614
Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	50,421
Uzbekistan`UZB`Central Asia	44,933
Côte d’Ivoire`CIV`Western Africa	44,751
Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	40,532
Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	33,506
Chad`TCD`Middle Africa	33,455
Rwanda`RWA`Eastern Africa	30,861
Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	28,593
Bosnia and Herzegovina`BIH`Southern Europe	28,020
South Africa`ZAF`Southern Africa	23,336
Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	22,024
Djibouti`DJI`Eastern Africa	21,702
Namibia`NAM`Southern Africa	21,649
Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	20,706
Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia	20,610
Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia	15,945
Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe	14,966
Austria`AUT`Western Europe	14,122
Turkmenistan`TKM`Central Asia	13,691
Gabon`GAB`Middle Africa	13,468
Mexico`MEX`Central America	12,953
Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	12,560
Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	12,485
Costa Rica`CRI`Central America	12,433
Togo`TGO`Western Africa	12,295
Angola`AGO`Middle Africa	12,249
Gambia`GMB`Western Africa	12,117
Libya`LBY`Northern Africa	11,666
Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	10,031
Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa	9,433
Mali`MLI`Western Africa	9,093
Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe	8,392
Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia	7,705
Guinea-Bissau`GNB`Western Africa	7,639
Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	7,353
Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	6,783
Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	6,075
New Zealand`NZL`Australia and New Zealand	5,760
Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	5,366
Benin`BEN`Western Africa	5,014
Papua New Guinea`PNG`Melanesia	4,941
Georgia`GEO`Western Asia	4,194
Israel`ISR`Western Asia	4,170
Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	3,642
Eritrea`ERI`Eastern Africa	3,619
Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia	3,437
Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	3,302
Ecuador`ECU`South America	3,225
Brazil`BRA`South America	3,176
Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe	2,940
Syria`SYR`Western Asia	2,914
Lebanon`LBN`Western Asia	2,826
North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe	2,815
Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	2,798
Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	2,778
Japan`JPN`Eastern Asia	2,658
Argentina`ARG`South America	2,428
Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	2,170
Morocco`MAR`Northern Africa	2,127
Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	1,839
Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	1,586
Panama`PAN`Central America	1,565
Kuwait`KWT`Western Asia	1,521
Hong Kong`HKG`Eastern Asia	1,490
Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	1,296
Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe	1,201
Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	1,198
Belize`BLZ`Central America	1,048
Cuba`CUB`Caribbean	1,001
Guatemala`GTM`Central America	732
Peru`PER`South America	679
Eswatini`SWZ`Southern Africa	653
Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe	612
Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe	460
Burkina Faso`BFA`Western Africa	457
Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	453
Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe	443
Chile`CHL`South America	414
Mauritania`MRT`Western Africa	398
Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe	384
Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	363
Bolivia`BOL`South America	352
Nicaragua`NIC`Central America	324
Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	311
Niger`NER`Western Africa	296
Colombia`COL`South America	208
Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	206
Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	197
Somalia`SOM`Eastern Africa	193
Cambodia`KHM`South-eastern Asia	192
Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	172
Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia	171
United Arab Emirates`ARE`Western Asia	165
Liechtenstein`LIE`Western Europe	126
Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	109
Uruguay`URY`South America	97
Tunisia`TUN`Northern Africa	93
El Salvador`SLV`Central America	74
Venezuela`VEN`South America	62
Qatar`QAT`Western Asia	46
Honduras`HND`Central America	28
Sri Lanka`LKA`Southern Asia	22
Paraguay`PRY`South America	19
Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	18
South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia	15
Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	6
Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe	5
Afghanistan`AFG`Southern Asia	0
Comoros`COM`Eastern Africa	0
Madagascar`MDG`Eastern Africa	0
Oman`OMN`Western Asia	0
Timor-Leste`TLS`South-eastern Asia	0

02In 2002

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

Iran1,306,599
Pakistan1,227,429
Germany980,001
Tanzania689,373
United States485,173

Lowest

Timor-Lesteshared0
Omanshared0
Madagascarshared0
Comorosshared0
Afghanistanshared0

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 5,760. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032001 → 2002

Since 2001

What changed between 2001 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+0 / −2countries joined / left
138values changed, of 149 in both
79 · 59rose · fell
11unchanged

Rose most

Germany903,000 → 980,001+77,001
Egypt7,223 → 80,488+73,265
Sierra Leone10,498 → 63,491+52,993
Tanzania646,899 → 689,373+42,474
United Kingdom233,389 → 260,687+27,298

Fell most

Pakistan2,198,792 → 1,227,429−971,363
Iran1,868,000 → 1,306,599−561,401
Côte d’Ivoire126,239 → 44,751−81,488
Serbia400,306 → 354,400−45,906
Indonesia73,542 → 28,593−44,949

− Lesotho

− Mauritius

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

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

How values are stored

145 distinct values among 149
Values are stored exactly as published. 5 countries share 0. Countries sharing a value share a position too.
Nothing missing
Every one of the 149 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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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency (2002). Refugee Population by Country of Asylum, 2002 [data set], describing 2002. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/refugees-hosted/2002

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How it has moved, charted by country

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