The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was established on December 14, 1950 by the United Nations General Assembly. The agency is mandated to lead and co-ordinate international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide. Its primary purpose is to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees. It strives to ensure that everyone can exercise the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge in another State, with the option to return home voluntarily, integrate locally or to resettle in a third country. It also has a mandate to help stateless people.
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Updated July 17, 2016
| Dataset date: Jan 1, 2001-Dec 31, 2014
This dataset updates: Never
This dataset contains data from UNHCR's comprehensive annual statistical yearbooks. The yearbooks are a rigorous review of refugee figures on that year. It also contains reviews on figures about asylum seekers, IDPs, and other population groups.
Original reports are also available on UNHCR's Statistical Yearbook website.
Updated June 20, 2016
| Dataset date: Jan 1, 2015-Dec 31, 2015
This dataset updates: Never
2015 UNHCR Refugees statistics by Country of Asylum broken down by Country of Origin
Figures between 1 and 4 are redacted for Refugees protection reasons
Updated November 24, 2015
| Dataset date: Jan 1, 2014-Dec 31, 2014
This dataset updates: Never
The Asylum Trends 2014 statistics provides the estimated number of new asylum applications lodged in industrialized countries throughout the year.
The 2014 figure is the highest since 1992, at the beginning of the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Updated November 24, 2015
| Dataset date: Dec 31, 2013
This dataset updates: Every six months
The UNHCR Population Statistics database currently contains data about UNHCR's populations of concern from the year 2000 up to 2013. The data is the same available in UNHCR's Yearbook Statistical Yearbook publications.
In this dataset it is possible to investigate different aspects of the populations of concern: their general composition by location of residence or origin, their status (refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced persons, etc.), their evolution over time, and so on.
Updated November 24, 2015
| Dataset date: Jan 1, 1975-Dec 1, 2012
This dataset updates: Never
The UNHCR Refugee Population statistics are compiled and curated at headquarters-level and released yearly at the same time of the UNHCR Statistical Yearbooks. This is a subset of the data only with refugees from Colombia. The full dataset is available here.
This dataset contains refugee population statistics from 1975 until 2012.
Updated November 24, 2015
| Dataset date: Jan 1, 1975-Dec 1, 2012
This dataset updates: Every year
The UNHCR Refugee Population statistics are compiled and curated at headquarters-level and released yearly at the same time of the UNHCR Statistical Yearbooks. This is a subset of the data only with refugees from Yemen. The full dataset is available here.
This dataset contains refugee population statistics from 1975 until 2012.
Updated November 24, 2015
| Dataset date: Jan 1, 1975-Dec 1, 2012
This dataset updates: Every year
The UNHCR Refugee Population statistics are compiled and curated at headquarters-level and released yearly at the same time of the UNHCR Statistical Yearbooks. This is a subset of the data only with refugees from Kenya. The full dataset is available here.
This dataset contains refugee population statistics from 1975 until 2012.
