World Development Indicators

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

Most recent: 788,419 (2025)
Earliest: 245,935 (1960)
Highest: 788,419 (2025)
Years reported: 66
Member state: France 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	788,419
2024	721,771
2023	664,366
2022	612,934
2021	499,914
2020	436,055
2019	407,915
2018	368,345
2017	337,158
2016	304,527
2015	273,117
2014	252,248
2013	232,487
2012	217,865
2011	210,207
2010	200,687
2009	196,364
2008	171,206
2007	151,789
2006	145,996
2005	137,316
2004	139,852
2003	130,838
2002	132,182
2001	131,601
2000	132,508
1999	129,722
1998	140,213
1997	146,558
1996	151,331
1995	155,240
1994	195,288
1993	166,269
1992	156,512
1991	174,756
1990	193,000
1989	180,258
1988	183,946
1987	179,306
1986	180,258
1985	174,213
1984	169,863
1983	164,113
1982	152,223
1981	125,597
1980	121,958
1979	119,489
1978	126,229
1977	119,413
1976	114,634
1975	109,882
1974	105,538
1973	101,830
1972	98,900
1971	141,844
1970	158,543
1969	175,242
1968	176,736
1967	177,200
1966	179,468
1965	177,665
1964	175,861
1963	174,057
1962	259,740
1961	253,375
1960	245,935

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