World Development Indicators

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

Most recent: 2,671,560 (2025)
Earliest: 500,000 (1979)
Highest: 6,403,144 (2023)
Years reported: 47
Member state: Afghanistan at the United Nations

Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of origin, 1979–2025. 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 originating (UNHCR mandate)
2025	2,671,560
2024	5,766,586
2023	6,403,144
2022	5,661,717
2021	2,712,869
2020	2,594,827
2019	2,727,556
2018	2,681,267
2017	2,624,265
2016	2,501,447
2015	2,666,294
2014	2,596,259
2013	2,556,483
2012	2,586,132
2011	2,664,423
2010	3,054,699
2009	2,887,114
2008	2,833,116
2007	3,057,655
2006	2,107,510
2005	2,166,139
2004	2,414,460
2003	2,136,039
2002	2,510,294
2001	3,809,763
2000	3,587,327
1999	2,601,690
1998	2,667,118
1997	2,676,675
1996	2,674,234
1995	2,679,132
1994	2,731,166
1993	3,374,575
1992	4,552,153
1991	6,306,301
1990	6,339,095
1989	5,643,989
1988	5,622,982
1987	5,511,740
1986	5,094,283
1985	4,653,193
1984	4,417,651
1983	4,712,735
1982	4,488,214
1981	3,879,984
1980	1,734,921
1979	500,000

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