World Development Indicators

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

Most recent: 416,028 (2025)
Earliest: 48,629 (1960)
Highest: 416,028 (2025)
Years reported: 66
Member state: Canada at the United Nations

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

Year	Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate)
2025	416,028
2024	269,496
2023	169,448
2022	140,621
2021	130,125
2020	109,214
2019	101,757
2018	114,101
2017	104,768
2016	97,322
2015	135,890
2014	149,164
2013	160,347
2012	163,751
2011	164,879
2010	165,544
2009	169,424
2008	173,642
2007	175,728
2006	151,832
2005	147,164
2004	141,402
2003	133,088
2002	129,935
2001	129,227
2000	126,991
1999	123,303
1998	119,355
1997	125,176
1996	138,427
1995	152,110
1994	186,555
1993	183,241
1992	183,723
1991	170,916
1990	154,761
1989	135,752
1988	116,434
1987	104,843
1986	98,743
1985	92,194
1984	112,966
1983	120,947
1982	107,591
1981	96,415
1980	92,679
1979	57,913
1978	31,295
1977	29,537
1976	27,387
1975	16,349
1974	11,410
1973	13,358
1972	20,933
1971	17,196
1970	18,518
1969	19,275
1968	17,950
1967	9,991
1966	10,225
1965	9,980
1964	10,178
1963	10,946
1962	12,282
1961	44,492
1960	48,629

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