Data for 2013

Refugee Population by Country of Asylum, 2013

Name: Refugee Population by Country of Asylum, 2013
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 2013, as UNHCR published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Refugee Population by Country of Asylum, 2013 covers 171 countries. Pakistan is highest, at 1,616,505; 9 countries share the lowest reading, 0. The middle country reads 3,166. Against 2012, 156 values changed (101 up, 55 down), 2 countries joined, 1 left.

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Refugee Population by Country of Asylum · Data for 2013

HighestPakistan

1,616,505

Lowest9 countries share it

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

171countries
1measure
2013the year it describes
157distinct 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, 2013, 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, 2013: every country, as published by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.

Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	1,616,505
Iran`IRN`Southern Asia	857,352
Lebanon`LBN`Western Asia	856,539
Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	641,904
Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	609,931
Kenya`KEN`Eastern Africa	534,935
Chad`TCD`Middle Africa	434,476
Ethiopia`ETH`Eastern Africa	433,933
China`CHN`Eastern Asia	301,045
United States`USA`Northern America	263,653
Iraq`IRQ`Western Asia	246,294
Yemen`YEM`Western Asia	241,281
France`FRA`Western Europe	232,487
Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	231,142
Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	230,070
South Sudan`SSD`Eastern Africa	229,587
Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	220,548
Venezuela`VEN`South America	204,331
India`IND`Southern Asia	188,391
Germany`DEU`Western Europe	187,545
Canada`CAN`Northern America	160,347
Sudan`SDN`Northern Africa	159,848
Syria`SYR`Western Asia	149,286
Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	136,489
United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe	126,036
Ecuador`ECU`South America	123,177
Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	114,744
Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe	114,172
DR Congo`COD`Middle Africa	113,357
Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	102,099
Malaysia`MYS`South-eastern Asia	97,502
Algeria`DZA`Northern Africa	94,142
Mauritania`MRT`Western Africa	92,766
Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	76,248
Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	74,700
Rwanda`RWA`Eastern Africa	73,352
South Africa`ZAF`Southern Africa	65,976
Niger`NER`Western Africa	57,657
Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe	57,079
Austria`AUT`Western Europe	55,575
Liberia`LBR`Western Africa	53,243
Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe	52,448
Republic of the Congo`COG`Middle Africa	51,033
Israel`ISR`Western Asia	48,182
Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	46,303
Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	46,088
Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	45,487
Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand	34,485
Burkina Faso`BFA`Western Africa	29,233
Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	25,617
Libya`LBY`Northern Africa	25,561
Angola`AGO`Middle Africa	23,771
Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	23,584
Togo`TGO`Western Africa	20,613
Costa Rica`CRI`Central America	20,554
Djibouti`DJI`Eastern Africa	20,010
Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	18,681
Panama`PAN`Central America	17,650
Afghanistan`AFG`Southern Asia	16,861
Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	16,428
Central African Republic`CAF`Middle Africa	14,323
Mali`MLI`Western Africa	14,317
Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	14,241
Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	13,727
Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	13,153
Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	11,242
Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	9,900
Gambia`GMB`Western Africa	9,557
Papua New Guinea`PNG`Melanesia	9,373
Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	8,554
Guinea-Bissau`GNB`Western Africa	8,535
Montenegro`MNE`Southern Europe	8,471
Bosnia and Herzegovina`BIH`Southern Europe	6,924
Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa	6,387
Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	5,991
Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	5,794
Brazil`BRA`South America	5,185
Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	4,641
Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	4,443
Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	4,305
Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia	3,879
Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	3,468
Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe	3,450
Argentina`ARG`South America	3,340
Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	3,195
Eritrea`ERI`Eastern Africa	3,166
Côte d’Ivoire`CIV`Western Africa	2,970
Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	2,966
Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe	2,956
Sierra Leone`SLE`Western Africa	2,816
Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	2,771
Japan`JPN`Eastern Asia	2,586
Somalia`SOM`Eastern Africa	2,426
Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	2,422
Namibia`NAM`Southern Africa	2,330
Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia	2,050
Mexico`MEX`Central America	1,814
Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	1,747
Chile`CHL`South America	1,738
Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	1,688
Gabon`GAB`Middle Africa	1,592
Morocco`MAR`Northern Africa	1,458
New Zealand`NZL`Australia and New Zealand	1,388
Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	1,377
Peru`PER`South America	1,128
North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe	980
Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	918
Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe	901
Georgia`GEO`Western Asia	847
Bolivia`BOL`South America	734
Tunisia`TUN`Northern Africa	727
Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	721
Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe	691
Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe	679
Kuwait`KWT`Western Asia	633
United Arab Emirates`ARE`Western Asia	602
Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe	599
Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe	596
Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia	580
Saudi Arabia`SAU`Western Asia	557
South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia	548
Eswatini`SWZ`Southern Africa	501
Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia	468
Cuba`CUB`Caribbean	377
Bahrain`BHR`Western Asia	294
Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	237
Colombia`COL`South America	207
Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe	202
Benin`BEN`Western Africa	190
Uruguay`URY`South America	190
Nicaragua`NIC`Central America	184
Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	178
Guatemala`GTM`Central America	154
Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe	149
Sri Lanka`LKA`Southern Asia	143
Uzbekistan`UZB`Central Asia	143
Oman`OMN`Western Asia	138
Paraguay`PRY`South America	132
Qatar`QAT`Western Asia	130
Hong Kong`HKG`Eastern Asia	113
Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	96
Liechtenstein`LIE`Western Europe	96
Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	72
Cambodia`KHM`South-eastern Asia	64
Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	52
Turkmenistan`TKM`Central Asia	45
El Salvador`SLV`Central America	42
Monaco`MCO`Western Europe	34
Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	29
Belize`BLZ`Central America	21
Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	18
Honduras`HND`Central America	16
Bahamas`BHS`Caribbean	14
Curaçao`CUW`Caribbean	13
Guyana`GUY`South America	12
Madagascar`MDG`Eastern Africa	11
Trinidad and Tobago`TTO`Caribbean	10
Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	8
Cayman Islands`CYM`Caribbean	5
Saint Lucia`LCA`Caribbean	5
Sint Maarten`SXM`Caribbean	5
Turks and Caicos Islands`TCA`Caribbean	5
Aruba`ABW`Caribbean	0
Brunei`BRN`South-eastern Asia	0
Fiji`FJI`Melanesia	0
Haiti`HTI`Caribbean	0
Macau`MAC`Eastern Asia	0
Myanmar`MMR`South-eastern Asia	0
Nauru`NRU`Micronesia	0
Solomon Islands`SLB`Melanesia	0
Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia	0

02In 2013

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

Pakistan1,616,505
Iran857,352
Lebanon856,539
Jordan641,904
Türkiye609,931

Lowest

Vietnamshared0
Solomon Islandsshared0
Naurushared0
Myanmarshared0
Macaushared0

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 3,166. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032012 → 2013

Since 2012

What changed between 2012 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+2 / −1countries joined / left
156values changed, of 169 in both
101 · 55rose · fell
13unchanged

Rose most

Lebanon133,913 → 856,539+722,626
Türkiye267,063 → 609,931+342,868
Jordan302,700 → 641,904+339,204
Iraq98,818 → 246,294+147,476
Egypt109,923 → 230,070+120,147

Fell most

Germany589,735 → 187,545−402,190
Syria476,496 → 149,286−327,210
Republic of the Congo98,446 → 51,033−47,413
Kenya564,921 → 534,935−29,986
United Kingdom149,790 → 126,036−23,754

+ Cayman Islands

+ Saint Lucia

− Montserrat

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

157 distinct values among 171
Values are stored exactly as published. 9 countries share 0. Countries sharing a value share a position too.
Nothing missing
Every one of the 171 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 (2013). Refugee Population by Country of Asylum, 2013 [data set], describing 2013. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/refugees-hosted/2013

0636 held

Other years

‹ The year before
Refugee Population by Country of Asylum, 2012
170 countries
The year after ›
Refugee Population by Country of Asylum, 2014
172 countries
All of them
Refugee Population by Country of Asylum: every year
36 held, with the data dictionary, coverage and licence.
How it has moved, charted by country

07Questions