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The refugee story in statistics
UNHCR seeks to contribute to informed decision-making and public debate by providing accurate, relevant and up-to-date statistics. This page provides data, trends and statistical reports on the "People of concern to UNHCR": refugees, asylum-seekers, returned refugees, internally displaced and stateless persons in more than 150 countries.

This page tracks progress toward achieving lasting solutions for refugees, the scope and nature of protection activities, new outflows, the duration of refugee situations, camp locations, asylum applications and refugee status determination (RSD). Detailed information on country of asylum, origin, gender, age, location and legal status of refugees is available. Indicators on the quality of refugee protection and UNHCR operations are increasingly being collected.

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Newly released reports

Asylum Levels and Trends in Industrialized Countries, First Half 2008: Statistical overview of asylum applications lodged in 38 European and 6 non-European countries (New)
[17 October 2008, pdf, 25pp., 519Kb]

UNHCR: Global provider of refugee and asylum data [June 2008, pdf, pp. 29-32, 306Kb]
Read the interview with UNHCR's statisticians given to Eurostat's magazine Sigma

2007 Global Trends: Refugees, Asylum-seekers, Returnees, Internally Displaced and Stateless Persons [June 2008, pdf, 21pp., 712Kb]
Annexes (Excel tables) and hi-res pdf available for downloading here [zipped format, 4.9Mb]

UNHCR Statistical Yearbook 2006
[December 2007]
Annexes available for downloading here
(Excel tables, zipped format, 520Kb)



Measuring Protection by Numbers
[PDF, 38pp., 2.72Mb]
A pilot report from UNHCR aimed at presenting the protection function from a quantitative perspective, in a reader friendly format accessible to non-experts. Hard-copies can be ordered from HQMPBN



Statistics in the news

UNHCR news on refugee and asylum trends



Special Reports

Reports to UNHCR's ExCom, research papers, special topics



Interactive RefScout

Visualize the 2007 population statistics in the form of interactive maps, graphs and tables by regions and countries.



UNHCR Statistical Online Population Database

UNHCR's Statistical Online Population Database brings together in a single electronic platform standardized data on UNHCR's population of concern at country, regional, and global levels.


Millennium Development Goals and Refugees
Refugees, asylum seekers, IDPs and the Millenium Development Goals


Statistical Yearbook
UNHCR's comprehensive annual statistical publication
2007 (provisional)
plus Annexes (Excel tables, and hi-res pdf, zipped format, 4.9Mb)




Asylum trends

Asylum claims in industrialized countries
Monthly data:
January-September 2008

[Excel tables, zipped format, 121Kb]
2008 First Half
[PDF, 25pp., 519Kb]
2007 overview
[PDF, 38pp., 497Kb]
2007 second quarter
[PDF, 24pp., 542Kb]




Quarterly Trends

Refugee and refugee status determination (RSD) trends in developing countries



Standards & Indicators Report

Indicators for more than 100 refugee camps (Standards and Indicators Project)


UNHCR: Global provider of refugee and asylum data
UNHCR's statisticians interviewed by Eurostat's magazine Sigma


Catalogue
Archive of all statistical reports






2005 Statistical Posters

Posters showing simple and per capita refugee populations world-wide, as well as simple and per-capita financial contributions.