World Development Indicators

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

Most recent: 42,450 (2025)
Earliest: 600 (1977)
Highest: 42,450 (2025)
Years reported: 49
Member state: Japan at the United Nations

Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of asylum, 1977–2025. 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	42,450
2024	29,068
2023	22,335
2022	15,451
2021	1,508
2020	1,132
2019	1,463
2018	1,893
2017	2,189
2016	2,512
2015	2,479
2014	2,562
2013	2,586
2012	2,579
2011	2,645
2010	2,583
2009	2,331
2008	2,016
2007	1,792
2006	1,842
2005	1,940
2004	1,967
2003	2,266
2002	2,658
2001	3,198
2000	3,752
1999	4,233
1998	4,483
1997	4,846
1996	5,278
1995	5,432
1994	5,942
1993	6,495
1992	6,669
1991	6,397
1990	6,819
1989	6,479
1988	6,110
1987	5,601
1986	5,016
1985	4,707
1984	3,967
1983	4,900
1982	4,390
1981	2,520
1980	2,390
1979	1,260
1978	610
1977	600

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