World Development Indicators

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

Most recent
283,935 (2025)
Earliest
12,000 (1960)
Highest
283,935 (2025)
Years reported
66
Member state
Kingdom of the Netherlands at the United Nations
0250,000500,0001960: 12,0001961: 10,0001962: 10,0001963: 9,5001964: 9,5001965: 9,0001966: 8,5001967: 8,0001968: 8,0001969: 8,0001970: 8,5241971: 8,6001972: 8,8301973: 8,4001974: 8,0151975: 7,8501976: 7,9001977: 8,0001978: 8,0001979: 10,0001980: 12,0001981: 13,0001982: 14,0001983: 14,5001984: 15,0001985: 15,5001986: 16,0001987: 24,0001988: 25,9631989: 16,9711990: 17,3371991: 19,0201992: 29,7211993: 43,5211994: 62,1521995: 79,9491996: 102,5731997: 118,0571998: 131,4811999: 138,6332000: 146,1742001: 151,9192002: 148,3492003: 140,8772004: 126,7922005: 118,1722006: 100,5652007: 86,5762008: 77,5892009: 75,9962010: 74,9482011: 74,5872012: 71,8932013: 74,7002014: 82,4832015: 88,5182016: 101,7272017: 103,8432018: 101,8242019: 94,4172020: 95,8972021: 99,5852022: 237,3682023: 237,7672024: 263,3992025: 283,93519602025
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

YearRefugees hosted (UNHCR mandate)
2025283,935
2024263,399
2023237,767
2022237,368
202199,585
202095,897
201994,417
2018101,824
2017103,843
2016101,727
201588,518
201482,483
201374,700
201271,893
201174,587
201074,948
200975,996
200877,589
200786,576
2006100,565
2005118,172
2004126,792
2003140,877
2002148,349
2001151,919
2000146,174
1999138,633
1998131,481
1997118,057
1996102,573
199579,949
199462,152
199343,521
199229,721
199119,020
199017,337
198916,971
198825,963
198724,000
198616,000
198515,500
198415,000
198314,500
198214,000
198113,000
198012,000
197910,000
19788,000
19778,000
19767,900
19757,850
19748,015
19738,400
19728,830
19718,600
19708,524
19698,000
19688,000
19678,000
19668,500
19659,000
19649,500
19639,500
196210,000
196110,000
196012,000

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