World Development Indicators

Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of origin: South Korea

Most recent
117 (2025)
Earliest
5 (1991)
Highest
1,333 (2006)
Years reported
35
Member state
South Korea at the United Nations
01,0002,0001991: 51992: 51993: 51994: 171995: 291996: 401997: 501998: 631999: 722000: 692001: 832002: 2442003: 2362004: 2692005: 2662006: 1,3332007: 1,1832008: 1,0992009: 5672010: 5782011: 5082012: 5552013: 4952014: 4782015: 3462016: 2432017: 2392018: 2742019: 1802020: 1462021: 1172022: 1322023: 1072024: 1422025: 11719912025
Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of origin, 1991–2025. 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 originating (UNHCR mandate)
2025117
2024142
2023107
2022132
2021117
2020146
2019180
2018274
2017239
2016243
2015346
2014478
2013495
2012555
2011508
2010578
2009567
20081,099
20071,183
20061,333
2005266
2004269
2003236
2002244
200183
200069
199972
199863
199750
199640
199529
199417
19935
19925
19915

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