World Development Indicators

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

Most recent
322,345 (2025)
Earliest
400 (1979)
Highest
322,345 (2025)
Years reported
45 of 47 in the span
Member state
Iraq at the United Nations
0250,000500,0001979: 4001980: 4001981: 1,2001982: 1,2001983: 1,2001984: 1,2001985: 83,2001986: 111,0001987: 1,0001990: 9001991: 87,9901992: 115,0001993: 109,0661994: 119,5811995: 116,7221996: 112,9571997: 104,0321998: 104,0221999: 128,9132000: 127,7872001: 128,1422002: 134,1902003: 46,7212004: 46,0532005: 50,1772006: 44,4062007: 42,3522008: 39,5032009: 35,2132010: 34,6472011: 35,1842012: 98,8182013: 246,2942014: 271,1372015: 277,7022016: 261,8632017: 277,6682018: 283,0182019: 273,9862020: 270,3772021: 280,0722022: 273,7162023: 286,4802024: 318,4612025: 322,34519792025
Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of asylum, 1979–2025. 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 45 of the 47 years between 1979 and 2025 for Iraq. The missing 2 are drawn as gaps, because a gap is what they are.

Every year reported

YearRefugees hosted (UNHCR mandate)
2025322,345
2024318,461
2023286,480
2022273,716
2021280,072
2020270,377
2019273,986
2018283,018
2017277,668
2016261,863
2015277,702
2014271,137
2013246,294
201298,818
201135,184
201034,647
200935,213
200839,503
200742,352
200644,406
200550,177
200446,053
200346,721
2002134,190
2001128,142
2000127,787
1999128,913
1998104,022
1997104,032
1996112,957
1995116,722
1994119,581
1993109,066
1992115,000
199187,990
1990900
19871,000
1986111,000
198583,200
19841,200
19831,200
19821,200
19811,200
1980400
1979400

World Bank, World Development Indicators — SM.POP.RHCR.EA, available under CC BY 4.0.

Where this page comes from