World Development Indicators

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

Most recent: 3,195 (2025)
Earliest: 1,500 (1970)
Highest: 3,195 (2025)
Years reported: 52 of 56 in the span
Member state: Uruguay at the United Nations

Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of asylum, 1970–2025. 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 52 of the 56 years between 1970 and 2025 for Uruguay. The missing 4 are drawn as gaps, because a gap is what they are.

Every year reported

Year	Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate)
2025	3,195
2024	1,322
2023	1,285
2022	1,115
2021	877
2020	664
2019	498
2018	379
2017	334
2016	299
2015	292
2014	254
2013	190
2012	170
2011	165
2010	181
2009	162
2008	133
2007	130
2006	117
2005	114
2004	87
2003	84
2002	97
2001	86
2000	74
1999	83
1998	163
1997	134
1996	130
1995	121
1994	116
1993	131
1992	90
1991	81
1990	87
1989	110
1988	110
1987	110
1986	70
1985	110
1983	150
1982	60
1981	1,700
1980	1,700
1979	2,000
1978	2,000
1977	2,000
1974	1,250
1972	1,500
1971	1,500
1970	1,500

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