World Development Indicators

Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of asylum: Egypt

Most recent
220,033 (2025)
Earliest
470 (1964)
Highest
294,632 (2022)
Years reported
59 of 62 in the span
Member state
Egypt at the United Nations
0250,000500,0001964: 4701965: 5,0001969: 4,8001970: 5,0001971: 5,0201972: 7,3701973: 2,6001974: 4,0001975: 4,0001976: 4,0001977: 4,5101978: 5,0001979: 4,8501980: 1,4401981: 1,5801982: 5,5001983: 35,0001984: 5,5001985: 1,0901986: 1,0801987: 1,1501988: 1,6201989: 1,7401990: 1,9911991: 2,2451992: 5,5091993: 6,7091994: 7,2181995: 5,4011996: 6,0261997: 6,4861998: 6,2761999: 6,5532000: 6,8402001: 7,2232002: 80,4882003: 88,7452004: 90,3352005: 88,9342006: 88,0142007: 97,5502008: 97,8512009: 94,3922010: 95,0442011: 95,0782012: 109,9232013: 230,0702014: 236,0852015: 212,4922016: 213,5152017: 232,6472018: 246,7462019: 258,3912020: 272,8262021: 280,6862022: 294,6322023: 240,5072024: 238,0142025: 220,03319642025
Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of asylum, 1964–2025. Bars, not a line: a line drawn across a year the source does not report would invent an observation a reader could not tell from a measured one.

The World Bank reports 59 of the 62 years between 1964 and 2025 for Egypt. The missing 3 are drawn as gaps, because a gap is what they are.

Every year reported

YearRefugees hosted (UNHCR mandate)
2025220,033
2024238,014
2023240,507
2022294,632
2021280,686
2020272,826
2019258,391
2018246,746
2017232,647
2016213,515
2015212,492
2014236,085
2013230,070
2012109,923
201195,078
201095,044
200994,392
200897,851
200797,550
200688,014
200588,934
200490,335
200388,745
200280,488
20017,223
20006,840
19996,553
19986,276
19976,486
19966,026
19955,401
19947,218
19936,709
19925,509
19912,245
19901,991
19891,740
19881,620
19871,150
19861,080
19851,090
19845,500
198335,000
19825,500
19811,580
19801,440
19794,850
19785,000
19774,510
19764,000
19754,000
19744,000
19732,600
19727,370
19715,020
19705,000
19694,800
19655,000
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