World Development Indicators

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

Most recent: 263 (2025)
Earliest: 10 (1996)
Highest: 1,419 (2016)
Years reported: 29 of 30 in the span
Member state: North Korea at the United Nations

Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of origin, 1996–2025. 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 29 of the 30 years between 1996 and 2025 for North Korea. The missing 1 are drawn as gaps, because a gap is what they are.

Every year reported

Year	Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate)
2025	263
2024	283
2023	239
2022	267
2021	528
2020	689
2019	758
2018	797
2017	1,176
2016	1,419
2015	1,094
2014	1,275
2013	1,163
2012	1,126
2011	1,046
2010	915
2009	878
2008	881
2007	602
2006	394
2005	287
2004	344
2003	306
2002	256
2001	17
2000	15
1999	10
1998	5
1996	10

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