World Development Indicators

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

Most recent
770,514 (2025)
Earliest
2,000 (1962)
Highest
4.405e+06 (1991)
Years reported
51 of 64 in the span
Member state
Iran at the United Nations
02,500,0005,000,0001962: 2,0001963: 1,5001968: 3001969: 3001979: 130,1001980: 330,0001981: 1,565,0001982: 1,700,0601983: 1,900,0601984: 2,000,0001985: 2,300,0001986: 2,590,0001987: 2,760,0001988: 2,850,0001989: 2,850,0001990: 4,174,4011991: 4,404,9951992: 4,150,7231993: 2,495,0381994: 2,236,3501995: 2,071,9881996: 2,030,3591997: 1,982,5531998: 1,931,3321999: 1,835,6882000: 1,868,0002001: 1,868,0002002: 1,306,5992003: 984,8952004: 1,045,9752005: 974,3012006: 968,3682007: 963,5442008: 980,1042009: 1,070,4832010: 1,073,3632011: 886,4652012: 868,2392013: 857,3522014: 982,0252015: 979,4352016: 979,4352017: 979,4352018: 979,4352019: 979,4352020: 800,0252021: 798,3432022: 3,425,0912023: 3,764,5172024: 3,489,2572025: 770,51419622025
Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of asylum, 1962–2025. 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 51 of the 64 years between 1962 and 2025 for Iran. The missing 13 are drawn as gaps, because a gap is what they are.

Every year reported

YearRefugees hosted (UNHCR mandate)
2025770,514
20243.48926e+06
20233.76452e+06
20223.42509e+06
2021798,343
2020800,025
2019979,435
2018979,435
2017979,435
2016979,435
2015979,435
2014982,025
2013857,352
2012868,239
2011886,465
20101.07336e+06
20091.07048e+06
2008980,104
2007963,544
2006968,368
2005974,301
20041.04598e+06
2003984,895
20021.3066e+06
20011.868e+06
20001.868e+06
19991.83569e+06
19981.93133e+06
19971.98255e+06
19962.03036e+06
19952.07199e+06
19942.23635e+06
19932.49504e+06
19924.15072e+06
19914.405e+06
19904.1744e+06
19892.85e+06
19882.85e+06
19872.76e+06
19862.59e+06
19852.3e+06
19842e+06
19831.90006e+06
19821.70006e+06
19811.565e+06
1980330,000
1979130,100
1969300
1968300
19631,500
19622,000

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