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World Development Indicators

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

Most recent
84,017 (2025)
Earliest
75,760 (1975)
Highest
261,360 (1980)
Years reported
51
Member state
Thailand at the United Nations
0250,000500,0001975: 75,7601976: 82,8701977: 97,6001978: 138,9501979: 151,6201980: 261,3601981: 192,9901982: 168,9801983: 144,3201984: 128,5001985: 130,4201986: 119,9201987: 112,7401988: 107,7991989: 99,9351990: 99,8211991: 88,1641992: 63,6251993: 119,2321994: 100,8171995: 106,5651996: 107,9621997: 169,1541998: 138,3341999: 100,1332000: 104,9662001: 110,7112002: 112,6142003: 119,0562004: 121,1452005: 117,0502006: 133,1072007: 125,6272008: 112,9162009: 105,2862010: 96,6662011: 89,2452012: 84,4752013: 136,4892014: 130,2272015: 108,2522016: 106,4312017: 104,6052018: 102,2342019: 97,5562020: 96,1792021: 100,5102022: 94,4722023: 87,3142024: 84,4212025: 84,01719752025
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

YearRefugees hosted (UNHCR mandate)
202584,017
202484,421
202387,314
202294,472
2021100,510
202096,179
201997,556
2018102,234
2017104,605
2016106,431
2015108,252
2014130,227
2013136,489
201284,475
201189,245
201096,666
2009105,286
2008112,916
2007125,627
2006133,107
2005117,050
2004121,145
2003119,056
2002112,614
2001110,711
2000104,966
1999100,133
1998138,334
1997169,154
1996107,962
1995106,565
1994100,817
1993119,232
199263,625
199188,164
199099,821
198999,935
1988107,799
1987112,740
1986119,920
1985130,420
1984128,500
1983144,320
1982168,980
1981192,990
1980261,360
1979151,620
1978138,950
197797,600
197682,870
197575,760

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