World Development Indicators

Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of asylum: United Arab Emirates

Most recent
1,377 (2025)
Earliest
300 (1968)
Highest
26,350 (1985)
Years reported
50 of 58 in the span
Member state
United Arab Emirates at the United Nations
025,00050,0001968: 3001969: 3001971: 8701972: 8701973: 3,2001974: 1,2001976: 4,0001977: 3901978: 3901979: 5901980: 2,4901981: 6,0901982: 3,6901983: 4,0901984: 5,1701985: 26,3501989: 701993: 4341994: 3801995: 4091996: 4641997: 5191998: 5321999: 5012000: 5602001: 5542002: 1652003: 1602004: 1062005: 1042006: 1762007: 1612008: 2042009: 2802010: 5382011: 6752012: 6282013: 6022014: 4192015: 6632016: 8882017: 8842018: 1,1672019: 1,2422020: 1,3152021: 1,3552022: 1,3992023: 1,4162024: 1,3772025: 1,37719682025
Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of asylum, 1968–2025. 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 50 of the 58 years between 1968 and 2025 for United Arab Emirates. The missing 8 are drawn as gaps, because a gap is what they are.

Every year reported

YearRefugees hosted (UNHCR mandate)
20251,377
20241,377
20231,416
20221,399
20211,355
20201,315
20191,242
20181,167
2017884
2016888
2015663
2014419
2013602
2012628
2011675
2010538
2009280
2008204
2007161
2006176
2005104
2004106
2003160
2002165
2001554
2000560
1999501
1998532
1997519
1996464
1995409
1994380
1993434
198970
198526,350
19845,170
19834,090
19823,690
19816,090
19802,490
1979590
1978390
1977390
19764,000
19741,200
19733,200
1972870
1971870
1969300
1968300

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