World Development Indicators

Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of asylum: Papua New Guinea

Most recent
7,727 (2025)
Earliest
1,000 (1978)
Highest
11,839 (2021)
Years reported
48
Member state
Papua New Guinea at the United Nations
010,00020,0001978: 1,0001979: 1,0001980: 1,0001981: 1501982: 2,2001983: 1,2301984: 10,9501985: 11,7501986: 11,2901987: 9,6201988: 9,2411989: 7,7321990: 7,0991991: 6,0981992: 6,6861993: 7,6701994: 8,4611995: 9,6001996: 10,1751997: 8,1981998: 8,1981999: 6,6642000: 5,8622001: 4,9412002: 4,9412003: 7,4912004: 7,6262005: 10,0012006: 10,1822007: 10,0002008: 10,0052009: 9,7042010: 9,6992011: 9,3782012: 9,3782013: 9,3732014: 9,5032015: 9,5032016: 9,5292017: 10,0182018: 10,0222019: 9,6982020: 10,7812021: 11,8392022: 10,5242023: 10,5232024: 7,7322025: 7,72719782025
Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of asylum, 1978–2025. 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)
20257,727
20247,732
202310,523
202210,524
202111,839
202010,781
20199,698
201810,022
201710,018
20169,529
20159,503
20149,503
20139,373
20129,378
20119,378
20109,699
20099,704
200810,005
200710,000
200610,182
200510,001
20047,626
20037,491
20024,941
20014,941
20005,862
19996,664
19988,198
19978,198
199610,175
19959,600
19948,461
19937,670
19926,686
19916,098
19907,099
19897,732
19889,241
19879,620
198611,290
198511,750
198410,950
19831,230
19822,200
1981150
19801,000
19791,000
19781,000

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