World Development Indicators

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

Most recent
1.17804e+06 (2025)
Earliest
164,000 (1978)
Highest
1.17804e+06 (2025)
Years reported
38 of 48 in the span
Member state
Bangladesh at the United Nations
01,000,0002,000,0001978: 164,0001979: 01990: 1451991: 40,2601992: 245,1541993: 198,9501994: 116,2271995: 51,1171996: 30,6901997: 21,6031998: 22,2751999: 22,2092000: 21,6232001: 22,1692002: 22,0242003: 19,7912004: 20,4502005: 21,0992006: 26,3082007: 27,5712008: 28,3842009: 228,5872010: 229,2562011: 229,6692012: 230,6962013: 231,1422014: 232,4682015: 231,9542016: 276,2032017: 932,2092018: 906,6402019: 854,7792020: 866,5342021: 918,9072022: 952,3842023: 971,9842024: 1,005,6022025: 1,178,03819782025
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.

The World Bank reports 38 of the 48 years between 1978 and 2025 for Bangladesh. The missing 10 are drawn as gaps, because a gap is what they are.

Every year reported

YearRefugees hosted (UNHCR mandate)
20251.17804e+06
20241.0056e+06
2023971,984
2022952,384
2021918,907
2020866,534
2019854,779
2018906,640
2017932,209
2016276,203
2015231,954
2014232,468
2013231,142
2012230,696
2011229,669
2010229,256
2009228,587
200828,384
200727,571
200626,308
200521,099
200420,450
200319,791
200222,024
200122,169
200021,623
199922,209
199822,275
199721,603
199630,690
199551,117
1994116,227
1993198,950
1992245,154
199140,260
1990145
19790
1978164,000

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