World Development Indicators

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

Most recent: 230 (2025)
Earliest: 970 (1966)
Highest: 321,758 (2018)
Years reported: 48 of 60 in the span
Member state: China at the United Nations

Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of asylum, 1966–2025. 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 48 of the 60 years between 1966 and 2025 for China. The missing 12 are drawn as gaps, because a gap is what they are.

Every year reported

Year	Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate)
2025	230
2024	261
2023	296
2022	320
2021	303,436
2020	303,405
2019	303,379
2018	321,758
2017	321,714
2016	317,254
2015	301,044
2014	301,052
2013	301,045
2012	301,037
2011	301,016
2010	300,984
2009	300,985
2008	300,966
2007	301,075
2006	301,024
2005	301,039
2004	299,367
2003	299,347
2002	297,273
2001	295,321
2000	294,109
1999	293,297
1998	292,345
1997	291,506
1996	290,099
1995	288,310
1994	287,065
1993	287,424
1992	288,123
1991	289,061
1990	287,276
1989	284,300
1988	284,300
1987	280,600
1986	281,790
1985	279,670
1984	279,750
1983	276,630
1982	272,100
1981	265,000
1980	263,000
1979	250,000
1966	970

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