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The refugee story in statistics
UNHCR seeks to contribute to informed decision-making and public debate by providing accurate, relevant and up-to-date statistics. This page provides data, trends, an interactive data visualization platform and statistical reports on the people of concern to UNHCR: refugees, asylum seekers, returned refugees, internally displaced and stateless people around the world. This section tracks progress toward achieving durable solutions for refugees; the scope and nature of protection activities; new outflows; the duration of refugee situations; camp locations; asylum applications and refugee status determination. Detailed information on country of asylum, origin, gender, age, location and legal status of refugees is available. Indicators on the quality of refugee protection and UNHCR operations are increasingly being collected.
UNHCR Statistical Online Population Database
Standardized data on UNHCR's population of concern at country, regional, and global levels.
UNHCR Statistical Yearbooks
These yearbooks follow major trends in displacement, protection and solutions.
Millennium Development Goals
Refugees, asylum seekers, IDPs and the Millenium Development Goals
Standards and Indicators Report
Indicators for more than 100 refugee camps (Standards and Indicators Project)
Statistics Catalogue
Archive of all statistical reports
- 2008 Global Trends: Refugees, Asylum-seekers, Returnees, Internally Displaced and Stateless Persons
- Asylum Levels and Trends in Industrialized Countries 2008: Statistical Overview of Asylum Applications Lodged in Europe and Selected Non-European Countries
- UNHCR Statistical Yearbook 2007 - Acknowledgements, Table of Contents, Main Findings, Introduction
- UNHCR Statistical Yearbook 2007 - Annex
- UNHCR Statistical Yearbook 2007 - Chapter V: Well-being and Living Conditions of Refugees: Case Studies
Quarterly Trends
Refugee and refugee status determination (RSD) trends in developing countries
- Refugee Trends, 1 January - 30 June 2006: Refugee populations, new arrivals and durable solutions in 95, mostly developing, countries
- Trends in refugee status determination, 1 January - 30 June 2006: Asylum applications, refugee status determination and pending cases in 96, mostly developing, countries
- Refugee Trends 1 January - 31 March 2005: Refugee populations, new arrivals and durable solutions in 84, mostly developing, countries
- Trends in refugee status determination 1 January - 31 March 2005: Asylum applications, refugee status determination and pending cases in 84, mostly developing, countries
- Trends in refugee status determination 1 January - 30 September 2004: Asylum applications, refugee status determination and pending cases in 73, mostly developing, countries