World Development Indicators

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

Most recent: 436,226 (2025)
Earliest: 50 (1971)
Highest: 715,298 (2018)
Years reported: 55
Member state: Jordan at the United Nations

Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of asylum, 1971–2025. 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	436,226
2024	643,641
2023	684,066
2022	697,761
2021	712,823
2020	702,461
2019	693,668
2018	715,298
2017	691,015
2016	685,188
2015	664,110
2014	654,131
2013	641,904
2012	302,700
2011	451,000
2010	450,908
2009	450,752
2008	500,406
2007	500,273
2006	500,225
2005	962
2004	1,096
2003	1,195
2002	1,198
2001	1,062
2000	1,064
1999	1,008
1998	776
1997	731
1996	870
1995	698
1994	574
1993	465
1992	270
1991	440
1990	640
1989	130
1988	0
1987	0
1986	0
1985	400
1984	400
1983	150
1982	100
1981	80
1980	60
1979	120
1978	80
1977	0
1976	0
1975	0
1974	0
1973	0
1972	50
1971	50

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