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

Most recent
448 (2025)
Earliest
100 (1974)
Highest
245,290 (2002)
Years reported
44 of 52 in the span
Member state
Saudi Arabia at the United Nations
0125,000250,0001974: 1001979: 100,0001980: 100,0001981: 65,0001982: 59,0001983: 59,0001984: 105,5001985: 130,0001986: 202,1001991: 33,2611992: 28,6601993: 24,0251994: 17,9651995: 13,1691996: 9,8521997: 5,8331998: 5,5311999: 5,5602000: 5,3082001: 245,2662002: 245,2902003: 240,8312004: 240,5512005: 240,7012006: 240,7722007: 240,7422008: 240,5702009: 5732010: 5782011: 5952012: 5752013: 5572014: 5592015: 1222016: 1362017: 1532018: 2632019: 3152020: 3302021: 3332022: 4542023: 4772024: 4482025: 44819742025
Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of asylum, 1974–2025. 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 44 of the 52 years between 1974 and 2025 for Saudi Arabia. The missing 8 are drawn as gaps, because a gap is what they are.

Every year reported

YearRefugees hosted (UNHCR mandate)
2025448
2024448
2023477
2022454
2021333
2020330
2019315
2018263
2017153
2016136
2015122
2014559
2013557
2012575
2011595
2010578
2009573
2008240,570
2007240,742
2006240,772
2005240,701
2004240,551
2003240,831
2002245,290
2001245,266
20005,308
19995,560
19985,531
19975,833
19969,852
199513,169
199417,965
199324,025
199228,660
199133,261
1986202,100
1985130,000
1984105,500
198359,000
198259,000
198165,000
1980100,000
1979100,000
1974100

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