World Development Indicators

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

Most recent
1,586 (2025)
Earliest
160 (1972)
Highest
223,377 (1990)
Years reported
47 of 54 in the span
Member state
Guatemala at the United Nations
0125,000250,0001972: 1601980: 4,1301981: 100,0001982: 70,0001983: 70,0001984: 70,0001985: 12,0001986: 12,0001987: 12,0001988: 223,1001989: 223,1001990: 223,3771991: 223,2361992: 222,9291993: 4,6891994: 4,6721995: 1,4971996: 1,5601997: 1,5011998: 8141999: 7312000: 7202001: 7242002: 7322003: 7142004: 6552005: 3882006: 3792007: 3772008: 1272009: 1272010: 1372011: 1482012: 1572013: 1542014: 1602015: 2222016: 2952017: 3602018: 3802019: 4082020: 4422021: 4792022: 7012023: 9892024: 1,3062025: 1,58619722025
Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of asylum, 1972–2025. 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 47 of the 54 years between 1972 and 2025 for Guatemala. The missing 7 are drawn as gaps, because a gap is what they are.

Every year reported

YearRefugees hosted (UNHCR mandate)
20251,586
20241,306
2023989
2022701
2021479
2020442
2019408
2018380
2017360
2016295
2015222
2014160
2013154
2012157
2011148
2010137
2009127
2008127
2007377
2006379
2005388
2004655
2003714
2002732
2001724
2000720
1999731
1998814
19971,501
19961,560
19951,497
19944,672
19934,689
1992222,929
1991223,236
1990223,377
1989223,100
1988223,100
198712,000
198612,000
198512,000
198470,000
198370,000
198270,000
1981100,000
19804,130
1972160

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