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The UNHCR Refugee Data app showcases forced displacement and statelessness statistics over the last 24 years by country of asylum and origin.
Resettlement is used to assist refugees in countries that cannot provide them with appropriate protection and support. Resettlement arrivals are the total number of refugees reaching their country of resettlement after departing from their former country of asylum. Resettlement is primarily facilitated by UNHCR in most countries around the world, although significant private sponsorship schemes do exist as well.
| Year |
Country of Origin |
Country of Resettlement |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | - | - | 34,383 |
| 2021 | - | - | 57,436 |
| 2022 | - | - | 114,242 |
| 2023 | - | - | 158,591 |
| 2024 | - | - | 188,759 |
| Footnote | Year | Country of Origin |
Country of Asylum |
Population Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The data is based on the registered population as of end-2020, as data for 2021 was not available at time of publication apart from the data on asylum-seekers, which was sourced from Eurostat, and resettlement which was sourced from the Federal Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers. | 2021 | - | Belgium | RST |
| UNHCR continues to report on the 2,534 refugees and 36,241 stateless people until their status and whereabouts can be ascertained. For asylum-seekers, end of year figures account also for those who confirmed their spontaneous departure to UNHCR from February 2022. The others of concern figure at end-2022 corresponds to the number of conflict-affected, non-displaced people assisted by UNHCR during the year. | 2022 | - | Ukraine | RST |
| The numbers refer to mid-2020, as data for end-2020 was not available at time of publication. | 2020 | - | Angola | RST |
| In South Africa, all refugees and asylum-seekers with valid permits were considered to be active during the COVID-19 pandemic era as long as their permit’s expiry dates were after the breakout of the pandemic. With the resumption of normal services in 2022, many permits have been inactivated and are therefore considered to be administrative closures. In total, some 72,200 individuals either did not extend their permits or the extended permits became inactive by the end of the year. Individuals whose permits have been inactivated can reapply although asylum-seekers and refugees have reported challenges in accessing the online renewal system. | 2022 | - | South Africa | RST |
| The increase in the number of refugees and asylum-seekers in Libya is due to the arrival in 2024 of a total of 228,800 Sudanese. Almost 30,800 of them were registered as asylum-seekers by UNHCR and the remaining 198,000 are estimated based on the issuance of health cards in areas outside of Tripoli and reported as people in a refugee-like situation. | 2024 | - | Libya | RST |
| The number of resettlement arrivals is based on available figures of UNHCR facilitated resettlement departures to Iceland. | 2023 | - | Iceland | RST |
| Data is as of end-2020, apart from the data on asylum-seekers, which was sourced from Eurostat. | 2021 | - | Luxembourg | RST |
| All data is as of end-2022. | 2023 - 2024 | - | Bahamas | RST |
| UNHCR data on resettlement departures used in lieu of government resettlement arrival data, which was not available at end-2020 | 2020 | - | Romania | RST |
| UNHCR is currently working with the authorities and other actors to determine the size of the population that found an effective nationality solution under Law 169-14. Since the adoption of Law 169-14 in May 2014, important steps have been taken by the Dominican Republic to confirm Dominican nationality through the validation of birth certificates of individuals born in the country to two migrant parents before 2007. According to information shared by the Dominican delegation during the 2019 High-Level Segment on Statelessness, approximately 48 per cent of the total Group A population of 61,049 persons had been authorized by the National Electoral Board (JCE) to request their nationality documentation. Additionally, as of December 2019, over 1,700 Group B persons (900 of which were children) had submitted applications for naturalization to the Ministry of Interior and of the Police (MIP). However, no naturalization decisions concerning this population had been issued by end 2020. | 2020 | - | Dominican Rep. | RST |
| The number of resettlement arrivals is based on available figures of UNHCR facilitated resettlement departures to Slovenia. | 2023 | - | Slovenia | RST |
| Temporary protection granted to Ukrainians does not necessarily mean new displacement since it could include reapplications or reactivations from the refugees who were already granted refugee status following temporary visits to Ukraine as well as duplicated registrations across countries. Furthermore, Ukrainians that have been granted temporary protection may also have lodged individual asylum applications. See Ukraine Refugee Situation: Population movements, Factsheet #2, UNHCR (https://data.unhcr.org/en/documents/details/114591). | 2024 | Ukraine | - | RST |
| All data is as of May 2024. | 2024 | - | Curacao | RST |
| The number of resettlement arrivals is based on available figures of UNHCR facilitated resettlement departures to Belgium. | 2023 | - | Belgium | RST |
| Figures are UNHCR estimates. | 2021, 2024 | - | Japan | RST |
| Data for refugees and stateless people is as of end-2020. Data for asylum-seekers is sourced from the monthly statistics published on the Government website: https://migracija.lrv.lt/lt/statistika/prieglobscio-skyriaus-statistika/statistika-1/2021-metai | 2021 | - | Lithuania | RST |
| The number of resettlement arrivals is based on available figures of UNHCR facilitated resettlement departures to Sweden. | 2023 | - | Sweden | RST |
| The data are generally provided by governments, based on their own definitions and methods of data collection. | 2020 - 2022 | - | - | RST |
| Refers to Palestinian refugees under the UNHCR mandate only. | 2021 | Palestinian | - | RST |
| Data is as of end-2019. | 2022 | - | Monaco | RST |
| UNHCR is currently engaged in ongoing discussions with the Australian Government about how best to reflect Afghan refugee arrivals. The total number of Afghan refugee resettlement arrivals may change in future reports. Many of the Afghan resettlement arrivals include individuals that arrived in Australia on 449 visas and were subsequently converted to offshore humanitarian visas. As a result, not all of the arrivals may have occurred in 2022. | 2022 | - | Australia | RST |
| The number of resettlement arrivals is based on available figures of UNHCR facilitated resettlement departures to Finland. | 2023 | - | Finland | RST |
| The number of resettlement arrivals is based on available figures of UNHCR facilitated resettlement departures to Romania. | 2023 | - | Romania | RST |
| All figures are as of mid-2024 apart from statistics on resettlement arrivals and asylum-seekers. | 2024 | - | Australia | RST |
| The number of resettlement arrivals is based on available figures of UNHCR facilitated resettlement departures to Norway. | 2023 | - | Norway | RST |
| Small values between zero and five have been rounded to multiples of five. Data on asylum applications and decisions has additionally been rounded for small values between five and 10. Demographic data has been additionally modified so that the data remains additive. | 2020 - 2022 | - | - | RST |
| In Pakistan, the verification of the number of new arrivals from Afghanistan concluded in 2024. Due to the inactivation of substantive numbers of absentees, this resulted in an overall reduction of 190,200 Afghans reported in the country and an increase of 108,300 Afghans being registered as asylum-seekers. At the same time, 143,900 formerly unregistered family members of registered refugees, that were previously reported as people in a refugee-like situation, are now included as refugees, in line with the upcoming 2025-2027 multi-year strategy for Afghans. | 2024 | - | Pakistan | RST |
| All statistics reported by the United States of America apart from resettlement arrivals are as of mid-2024. Hence, the data of new applications and decisions only include the period between January and June 2024, and the number of pending applications is as of 30 June 2024. The full year statistics for each of these are likely to be higher. | 2024 | - | United States of America | RST |
| The United States of America has also offered temporary status in certain circumstances to people in need of international protection. For example, in 2022, a significant number of Ukrainians and their immediate family members were given temporary protection on a humanitarian basis in the United States. UNHCR is in discussions with the U.S. government about how to best reflect such datapoints for all relevant populations in future reporting cycles. | 2022 | - | United States of America | RST |
