Asia and the Pacific Regional Trends - Forced Displacement and Statelessness 2025
Asia and the Pacific Regional Trends - Forced Displacement and Statelessness 2025
20 August 2026 – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency’s Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific, has released the Asia and the Pacific Regional Trends Report 2025, providing an overview of forced displacement and statelessness across the region up to the end of 2025.
The report reveals that 17.6 million people in Asia and the Pacific were forcibly displaced, stateless, returnees, or otherwise supported by UNHCR by the end of 2025. This represents a 2 per cent increase from the previous year and reflects the continued impact of conflict, persecution, human rights violations, and climate-related disasters across the region.
The region hosts 14 per cent of the total global population UNHCR protects and/or assists (17.6 million out of 129.4 million), including 12 per cent of the world’s refugees and asylum-seekers and other people in need of international protection, and 59 per cent of all recorded stateless people, including those with undetermined nationality.
The report highlights two of the region's largest displacement situations. Afghanistan remains one of the world’s largest countries of origin for refugees or other people in need of international protection, while the situation in Myanmar continues to drive displacement.
At the same time, humanitarian needs continue to grow while resources remain under significant strain. Funding shortfalls are affecting operations and limiting access to essential services, including shelter, education, healthcare and protection.
As displacement continues to rise and humanitarian needs deepen, renewed international solidarity and sustained investment in protection, assistance and solutions for refugees, internally displaced people and stateless populations are urgently needed.
