About this data

Source: UNHCR, Refugee Data Finder (2026); population from various sources; via Our World in Data

• Both are the number of people living in each country at the end of the year, not the number who arrived that year. Someone counts as an asylum seeker while their claim is being decided, and as a refugee once they've been granted protection.
• Refugees include people given temporary protection, such as Ukrainians since 2022, which is why numbers rose sharply in many European countries, including the UK, from 2022.
• Germany's figures fall sharply in 2013 because UNHCR revised how they were estimated, not because refugees left.
• UNHCR collects the figures from each country's government, so they depend on how each country records protection and claims; for example, the United States has a large backlog of asylum claims in its immigration courts.
• Selected high-income countries, and Turkey, one of the world's largest host countries. Countries hosting far more refugees per person, such as Lebanon (91 per 1,000 in 2025), Jordan and Uganda, aren't shown.

This chart appears in Migration.