World Development Indicators

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

Most recent: 49,107 (2025)
Earliest: 50 (1977)
Highest: 270,913 (2017)
Years reported: 49
Member state: Yemen at the United Nations

Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of asylum, 1977–2025. 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

Year	Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate)
2025	49,107
2024	46,827
2023	55,568
2022	77,458
2021	89,467
2020	166,906
2019	268,503
2018	264,359
2017	270,913
2016	269,778
2015	267,163
2014	257,637
2013	241,281
2012	237,176
2011	214,736
2010	190,088
2009	170,850
2008	140,166
2007	117,358
2006	95,791
2005	81,932
2004	66,379
2003	61,876
2002	82,795
2001	69,462
2000	60,543
1999	60,477
1998	61,380
1997	40,965
1996	53,546
1995	53,453
1994	48,305
1993	54,450
1992	59,680
1991	29,977
1990	2,938
1989	80,130
1988	78,157
1987	73,000
1986	105,000
1985	5,000
1984	4,280
1983	3,680
1982	1,400
1981	1,030
1980	15,550
1979	15,360
1978	15,050
1977	50

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