World Development Indicators

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

Most recent
4,407 (2025)
Earliest
70 (1978)
Highest
4,407 (2025)
Years reported
40 of 48 in the span
Member state
South Korea at the United Nations
02,5005,0001978: 701979: 1701981: 601982: 701987: 601988: 1201989: 2301990: 2301991: 1621992: 1491995: 51996: 51997: 51999: 52000: 52001: 52002: 152003: 202004: 372005: 612006: 902007: 1082008: 1622009: 2532010: 3522011: 3892012: 4882013: 5482014: 1,1642015: 1,4552016: 1,7982017: 2,2382018: 2,8902019: 3,1962020: 3,4432021: 3,5592022: 3,8252023: 4,0532024: 4,2412025: 4,40719782025
Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of asylum, 1978–2025. 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 40 of the 48 years between 1978 and 2025 for South Korea. The missing 8 are drawn as gaps, because a gap is what they are.

Every year reported

YearRefugees hosted (UNHCR mandate)
20254,407
20244,241
20234,053
20223,825
20213,559
20203,443
20193,196
20182,890
20172,238
20161,798
20151,455
20141,164
2013548
2012488
2011389
2010352
2009253
2008162
2007108
200690
200561
200437
200320
200215
20015
20005
19995
19975
19965
19955
1992149
1991162
1990230
1989230
1988120
198760
198270
198160
1979170
197870

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