Data for 2007

Refugee Population by Country of Asylum, 2007

Name: Refugee Population by Country of Asylum, 2007
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 2007, as UNHCR published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Refugee Population by Country of Asylum, 2007 covers 154 countries. Pakistan is highest, at 2,035,025; 4 countries share the lowest reading, 0. The middle country reads 5,093. Against 2006, 143 values changed (80 up, 63 down), 2 countries joined.

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Refugee Population by Country of Asylum · Data for 2007

HighestPakistan

2,035,025

Lowest4 countries share it

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

154countries
1measure
2007the year it describes
150distinct valueswhole numbers, as published
Sep 26, 2026read from the publisher
CC BY 4.0licence

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Refugee Population by Country of Asylum, 2007, 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, 2007: every country, as published by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.

Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	2,035,025
Syria`SYR`Western Asia	1,503,767
Iran`IRN`Southern Asia	963,544
Germany`DEU`Western Europe	578,866
Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	500,273
Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	435,630
China`CHN`Eastern Asia	301,075
United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe	299,701
Chad`TCD`Middle Africa	294,017
United States`USA`Northern America	281,154
Kenya`KEN`Eastern Africa	265,729
Ecuador`ECU`South America	264,868
Saudi Arabia`SAU`Western Asia	240,742
Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	228,956
Sudan`SDN`Northern Africa	222,720
Venezuela`VEN`South America	200,904
DR Congo`COD`Middle Africa	177,390
Canada`CAN`Northern America	175,728
India`IND`Southern Asia	161,534
France`FRA`Western Europe	151,789
Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	130,678
Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	125,627
Yemen`YEM`Western Asia	117,358
Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	112,931
Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe	97,991
Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	97,550
Algeria`DZA`Northern Africa	94,137
Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	86,576
Ethiopia`ETH`Eastern Africa	85,179
Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe	75,055
Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	60,137
Rwanda`RWA`Eastern Africa	53,574
Lebanon`LBN`Western Asia	50,330
Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe	45,642
Iraq`IRQ`Western Asia	42,352
Republic of the Congo`COG`Middle Africa	38,472
Kuwait`KWT`Western Asia	38,158
Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	38,061
South Africa`ZAF`Southern Africa	36,732
Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	34,955
Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	34,499
Malaysia`MYS`South-eastern Asia	32,657
Austria`AUT`Western Europe	30,767
Mauritania`MRT`Western Africa	30,465
Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	27,571
Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	26,779
Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	25,220
Côte d’Ivoire`CIV`Western Africa	24,640
Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	24,482
Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand	22,161
Brazil`BRA`South America	20,764
Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	20,417
Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	17,578
Costa Rica`CRI`Central America	17,176
Panama`PAN`Central America	16,877
Gambia`GMB`Western Africa	14,892
Angola`AGO`Middle Africa	12,064
Liberia`LBR`Western Africa	10,456
Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	10,037
Papua New Guinea`PNG`Melanesia	10,000
Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	9,318
Mali`MLI`Western Africa	9,202
Gabon`GAB`Middle Africa	8,822
Sierra Leone`SLE`Western Africa	8,794
Montenegro`MNE`Southern Europe	8,527
Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	8,463
Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	8,124
Guinea-Bissau`GNB`Western Africa	7,863
Benin`BEN`Western Africa	7,611
Central African Republic`CAF`Middle Africa	7,530
Bosnia and Herzegovina`BIH`Southern Europe	7,364
Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe	7,272
Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	6,941
Djibouti`DJI`Eastern Africa	6,653
Namibia`NAM`Southern Africa	6,522
Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	6,201
Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	5,143
Eritrea`ERI`Eastern Africa	5,042
Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	4,808
Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	4,564
Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia	4,283
Libya`LBY`Northern Africa	4,090
Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa	3,984
Argentina`ARG`South America	3,247
Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	3,003
Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	2,927
Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	2,760
Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe	2,737
New Zealand`NZL`Australia and New Zealand	2,715
Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	2,462
Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia	2,357
Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	2,351
Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	2,228
Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	2,015
Japan`JPN`Eastern Asia	1,792
Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	1,741
Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe	1,641
Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe	1,636
Mexico`MEX`Central America	1,603
Chile`CHL`South America	1,375
Togo`TGO`Western Africa	1,330
North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe	1,234
Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia	1,194
Israel`ISR`Western Asia	1,150
Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia	1,136
Uzbekistan`UZB`Central Asia	1,052
Georgia`GEO`Western Asia	1,051
Peru`PER`South America	981
Somalia`SOM`Eastern Africa	903
Eswatini`SWZ`Southern Africa	789
Morocco`MAR`Northern Africa	779
Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia	722
Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	688
Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe	643
Bolivia`BOL`South America	619
Cuba`CUB`Caribbean	617
Burkina Faso`BFA`Western Africa	535
Guatemala`GTM`Central America	377
Belize`BLZ`Central America	358
Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe	346
Niger`NER`Western Africa	318
Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	306
Liechtenstein`LIE`Western Europe	278
Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe	265
Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe	255
Sri Lanka`LKA`Southern Asia	184
Nicaragua`NIC`Central America	182
Cambodia`KHM`South-eastern Asia	175
Colombia`COL`South America	164
United Arab Emirates`ARE`Western Asia	161
Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	140
Uruguay`URY`South America	130
Turkmenistan`TKM`Central Asia	126
South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia	108
Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	102
Tunisia`TUN`Northern Africa	93
Hong Kong`HKG`Eastern Asia	89
Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	68
Paraguay`PRY`South America	57
Qatar`QAT`Western Asia	46
Afghanistan`AFG`Southern Asia	43
Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	41
El Salvador`SLV`Central America	39
Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe	27
Honduras`HND`Central America	21
Trinidad and Tobago`TTO`Caribbean	15
Oman`OMN`Western Asia	7
Singapore`SGP`South-eastern Asia	7
Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	6
Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	5
Antigua and Barbuda`ATG`Caribbean	0
Bahrain`BHR`Western Asia	0
Myanmar`MMR`South-eastern Asia	0
Timor-Leste`TLS`South-eastern Asia	0

02In 2007

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

Pakistan2,035,025
Syria1,503,767
Iran963,544
Germany578,866
Jordan500,273

Lowest

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 5,093. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032006 → 2007

Since 2006

What changed between 2006 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+2 / −0countries joined / left
143values changed, of 152 in both
80 · 63rose · fell
9unchanged

Rose most

Pakistan1,044,464 → 2,035,025+990,561
Syria702,202 → 1,503,767+801,565
Ecuador11,767 → 264,868+253,101
Venezuela716 → 200,904+200,188
Kuwait49 → 38,158+38,109

Fell most

United States843,434 → 281,154−562,280
Armenia113,713 → 4,564−109,149
Tanzania485,295 → 435,630−49,665
Australia68,942 → 22,161−46,781
Uganda272,003 → 228,956−43,047

+ Antigua and Barbuda

+ Trinidad and Tobago

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

150 distinct values among 154
Values are stored exactly as published. 4 countries share 0. Countries sharing a value share a position too.
Nothing missing
Every one of the 154 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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Cite this edition

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency (2007). Refugee Population by Country of Asylum, 2007 [data set], describing 2007. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/refugees-hosted/2007

0636 held

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Refugee Population by Country of Asylum, 2006
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Refugee Population by Country of Asylum, 2008
155 countries
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36 held, with the data dictionary, coverage and licence.
How it has moved, charted by country

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