World Development Indicators

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

Most recent
20,869 (2025)
Earliest
50 (1990)
Highest
300,421 (2014)
Years reported
36
Member state
Afghanistan at the United Nations
0250,000500,0001990: 501991: 381992: 60,0251993: 32,1311994: 19,1341995: 19,6051996: 18,7791997: 51998: 01999: 02000: 02001: 102002: 02003: 242004: 312005: 312006: 342007: 432008: 372009: 362010: 6,4342011: 3,0112012: 16,1842013: 16,8612014: 300,4212015: 257,5532016: 59,7702017: 75,9272018: 72,2282019: 72,2272020: 72,2782021: 66,9492022: 52,1592023: 34,8262024: 20,8662025: 20,86919902025
Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of asylum, 1990–2025. 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)
202520,869
202420,866
202334,826
202252,159
202166,949
202072,278
201972,227
201872,228
201775,927
201659,770
2015257,553
2014300,421
201316,861
201216,184
20113,011
20106,434
200936
200837
200743
200634
200531
200431
200324
20020
200110
20000
19990
19980
19975
199618,779
199519,605
199419,134
199332,131
199260,025
199138
199050

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