World Development Indicators

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

Most recent
9,885 (2025)
Earliest
170 (1978)
Highest
1.50377e+06 (2007)
Years reported
48
Member state
Syria at the United Nations
01,000,0002,000,0001978: 1701979: 2001980: 3501981: 1,0501982: 26,5701983: 40,4901984: 34,2301985: 47,7501986: 1,3301987: 01988: 2801989: 01990: 4,1251991: 4,2101992: 6,3101993: 38,7101994: 40,2851995: 36,2221996: 27,7581997: 22,7051998: 20,9691999: 6,4642000: 3,4612001: 3,3482002: 2,9142003: 3,6762004: 15,6002005: 26,0872006: 702,2022007: 1,503,7672008: 1,105,6932009: 1,054,4642010: 1,005,4712011: 755,4352012: 476,4962013: 149,2862014: 149,1352015: 21,1122016: 19,8072017: 19,4252018: 18,8172019: 16,2132020: 15,3042021: 14,3082022: 13,1212023: 12,0112024: 11,6352025: 9,88519782025
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.

Every year reported

YearRefugees hosted (UNHCR mandate)
20259,885
202411,635
202312,011
202213,121
202114,308
202015,304
201916,213
201818,817
201719,425
201619,807
201521,112
2014149,135
2013149,286
2012476,496
2011755,435
20101.00547e+06
20091.05446e+06
20081.10569e+06
20071.50377e+06
2006702,202
200526,087
200415,600
20033,676
20022,914
20013,348
20003,461
19996,464
199820,969
199722,705
199627,758
199536,222
199440,285
199338,710
19926,310
19914,210
19904,125
19890
1988280
19870
19861,330
198547,750
198434,230
198340,490
198226,570
19811,050
1980350
1979200
1978170

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