World Development Indicators

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

Most recent: 192,914 (2025)
Earliest: 15,500 (1960)
Highest: 312,849 (2024)
Years reported: 66
Member state: Italy at the United Nations

Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of asylum, 1960–2025. 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.

Every year reported

Year	Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate)
2025	192,914
2024	312,849
2023	298,296
2022	296,181
2021	144,862
2020	128,033
2019	207,602
2018	189,227
2017	167,330
2016	147,362
2015	118,036
2014	93,712
2013	76,248
2012	64,782
2011	58,066
2010	56,402
2009	54,962
2008	47,059
2007	38,061
2006	26,870
2005	20,674
2004	15,668
2003	12,812
2002	10,031
2001	8,541
2000	6,813
1999	6,004
1998	5,440
1997	66,601
1996	64,712
1995	74,298
1994	73,058
1993	50,266
1992	9,242
1991	9,796
1990	10,816
1989	13,893
1988	19,260
1987	20,413
1986	21,505
1985	22,386
1984	21,482
1983	22,062
1982	22,865
1981	22,601
1980	21,531
1979	14,100
1978	11,700
1977	11,700
1976	11,900
1975	11,900
1974	13,000
1973	12,600
1972	12,600
1971	12,700
1970	13,000
1969	14,000
1968	13,000
1967	13,000
1966	14,000
1965	15,000
1964	14,000
1963	14,600
1962	14,300
1961	14,500
1960	15,500

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