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
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
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