World Development Indicators

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

Most recent
386 (2025)
Earliest
5,000 (1979)
Highest
45,590 (1991)
Years reported
43 of 47 in the span
Member state
Kuwait at the United Nations
025,00050,0001979: 5,0001980: 5,0001981: 2,0001982: 2,2201983: 2,2201984: 2,8101985: 2,2801989: 2101991: 45,5901992: 44,8791993: 30,0001994: 30,0201995: 3,3061996: 3,8311997: 3,7871998: 4,1811999: 4,3332000: 2,7762001: 1,2552002: 1,5212003: 1,5182004: 1,5192005: 1,5232006: 492007: 38,1582008: 38,2372009: 2222010: 1852011: 3362012: 6762013: 6332014: 6112015: 7362016: 9352017: 6132018: 6712019: 6862020: 7322021: 7202022: 6842023: 5722024: 4882025: 38619792025
Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of asylum, 1979–2025. 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 43 of the 47 years between 1979 and 2025 for Kuwait. The missing 4 are drawn as gaps, because a gap is what they are.

Every year reported

YearRefugees hosted (UNHCR mandate)
2025386
2024488
2023572
2022684
2021720
2020732
2019686
2018671
2017613
2016935
2015736
2014611
2013633
2012676
2011336
2010185
2009222
200838,237
200738,158
200649
20051,523
20041,519
20031,518
20021,521
20011,255
20002,776
19994,333
19984,181
19973,787
19963,831
19953,306
199430,020
199330,000
199244,879
199145,590
1989210
19852,280
19842,810
19832,220
19822,220
19812,000
19805,000
19795,000

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