World Development Indicators

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

Most recent: 1,032 (2025)
Earliest: 690 (1975)
Highest: 26,651 (1989)
Years reported: 51
Member state: Philippines at the United Nations

Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of asylum, 1975–2025. 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	1,032
2024	962
2023	934
2022	856
2021	801
2020	709
2019	680
2018	631
2017	512
2016	392
2015	254
2014	213
2013	178
2012	141
2011	118
2010	238
2009	93
2008	99
2007	102
2006	96
2005	92
2004	106
2003	109
2002	109
2001	132
2000	175
1999	166
1998	303
1997	306
1996	685
1995	776
1994	668
1993	2,476
1992	6,721
1991	8,972
1990	19,860
1989	26,651
1988	21,109
1987	13,170
1986	13,830
1985	16,990
1984	18,270
1983	18,890
1982	15,240
1981	23,310
1980	20,300
1979	5,300
1978	5,300
1977	1,300
1976	940
1975	690

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