UNHCR / REFUGEE STATISTICS

REFUGEES BY COUNTRY.
WHERE PEOPLE HAVE FLED FROM.

How many refugees and asylum seekers have fled each country, from the UN Refugee Agency’s latest end-of-year figures, on a map. For people arriving in the UK, see UK asylum claims by nationality, UK migration and small boat crossings.

01 / THE MAP

Refugees by country of origin

END OF 2025 · UNHCR

REFUGEES

28.5M

Worldwide at the end of 2025

COUNTRIES

104

With 1,000 or more refugees abroad

MOST

Ukraine

5,224,131 refugees

ASYLUM SEEKERS

7.4M

Waiting for a decision

1 million or more
100,000 to 999,999
10,000 to 99,999
Under 10,000

02 / COUNTRY BY COUNTRY

Every country of origin

Country	Refugees	Asylum seekers
Ukraine	5,224,131	26,583
Syria	4,865,764	154,355
Sudan	2,820,737	940,297
Afghanistan	2,671,560	270,007
S. Sudan	2,386,499	123,984
Myanmar	1,524,378	67,824
Dem. Rep. Congo	1,176,489	168,421
Somalia	892,037	236,271
Central African Rep.	674,222	82,600
Eritrea	554,891	118,444
Mali	519,738	23,629
Nigeria	478,150	56,176
Venezuela	417,010	1,181,156
Burkina Faso	351,209	69,817
Burundi	318,291	64,899
Iraq	270,671	96,887
Rwanda	244,415	20,214
Haiti	180,702	236,318
W. Sahara	174,607	943
Ethiopia	164,215	148,616
Iran	157,912	49,263
China	153,962	99,716
Turkey	149,405	117,576
Sri Lanka	148,369	33,564
Cameroon	140,366	37,991
Azerbaijan	130,983	6,242
Russia	99,360	88,310
Honduras	94,449	168,464
Pakistan	90,497	65,066
Niger	85,591	21,662
Colombia	79,669	303,273
El Salvador	68,182	108,289
Yemen	57,327	25,860
Palestine	48,323	16,726
Guinea	47,692	56,626
Mauritania	43,906	28,438
India	42,610	181,121
Mexico	41,307	236,810
Nicaragua	35,341	269,315
Guatemala	34,994	138,420
Côte d'Ivoire	32,506	24,238
Bangladesh	31,862	92,441
Serbia	29,665	3,695
Cuba	29,395	288,050
Bosnia and Herz.	24,653	712
Egypt	23,763	46,292
Albania	21,447	7,643
Vietnam	20,636	19,253
Belarus	19,462	8,119
Georgia	17,302	28,902
Croatia	17,207	43
Libya	17,161	3,802
Ghana	16,030	22,470
Armenia	15,578	14,216
Chad	15,281	17,111
Angola	13,433	16,983
Kenya	13,325	7,773
Congo	13,134	9,431
Senegal	13,028	38,978
Uganda	12,792	11,401
Togo	12,661	5,334
Cambodia	11,332	1,646
Morocco	10,400	22,120
Lebanon	9,568	8,798
Indonesia	9,215	8,205
Algeria	9,174	12,949
Sierra Leone	8,925	8,342
Nepal	8,019	14,564
Peru	7,885	113,900
Bhutan	7,257	77
Gambia	6,728	6,712
Zimbabwe	6,632	6,373
Laos	6,489	466
Brazil	6,306	66,672
Moldova	5,846	3,022
Ecuador	5,723	122,060
Jordan	5,471	10,736
Chile	5,358	23,057
Uzbekistan	5,164	17,404
Liberia	5,117	3,725
Tajikistan	4,163	6,420
Kazakhstan	4,144	6,611
Tunisia	3,711	10,338
United States of America	3,667	3,779
Kuwait	3,369	2,148
Kyrgyzstan	3,337	8,072
Romania	3,130	7,877
Jamaica	2,642	7,541
Malaysia	2,477	5,511
Mongolia	2,403	3,679
Saudi Arabia	2,368	385
Comoros	2,338	401
Djibouti	2,223	1,419
Hungary	2,055	899
North Macedonia	1,886	1,332
Turkmenistan	1,864	1,663
Guinea-Bissau	1,800	1,355
Bahamas	1,598	760
Tanzania	1,592	2,777
Poland	1,368	407
South Africa	1,319	2,575
Benin	1,279	3,408
Israel	1,265	897
Dominican Rep.	1,240	20,783

Countries with fewer than 1,000 refugees abroad are left out of the table and map.

03 / SOURCES

Where the figures come from

Source: UNHCR Refugee Population Statistics Database, under CC BY 4.0, read from UNHCR’s public API daily. Refugees are people recognised as refugees, or in a refugee-like situation; asylum seekers are waiting for a decision. Stateless people and unknown origins are counted in the total but not on the map. UNHCR counts most Venezuelans as “other people in need of international protection”, a separate figure not shown here.

Refugees by Country: common questions

Which country has the most refugees?

The table above is sorted by refugees from each country. In UNHCR’s end-2025 figures Ukraine, Syria, Sudan and Afghanistan had the most people who had fled abroad as refugees.

How many refugees are there in the world?

The total at the top of the page is UNHCR’s count of refugees for the latest year. It does not include people displaced inside their own country.

What is the difference between a refugee and an asylum seeker?

An asylum seeker has asked for protection and is waiting for a decision. A refugee has been recognised as needing protection, or is in a refugee-like situation.

Why is Venezuela not near the top?

UNHCR counts most Venezuelans abroad as other people in need of international protection, a separate category from refugees, so they are not in these figures.

How often are the figures updated?

UNHCR publishes end-of-year figures in the middle of the following year. This page checks its API daily and shows the latest year available.

REFUGEES BY COUNTRY.WHERE PEOPLE HAVE FLED FROM.