Refugees who left

People from this country recognised as refugees elsewhere, per 100,000 of its population.

measured by: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
years covered: 1960–2024
subject: Society

Higher is generally taken as worse.

How this is measured

Counted by country of origin, not of asylum, so it is a measure of what people are leaving rather than where they arrive. "Refugee" is a legal status: it excludes people displaced inside their own borders, and anyone whose claim has not been recognised. The count therefore depends partly on the willingness of other states to grant it. Rescaled logarithmically inside an index.

Ranked for 2024

168 countries and territories have a figure for 2024. This is the most recent year the series covers well; the viewer holds every year from 1960.

#	Country	Region	Refugees
1	Brunei	Asia-Pacific	0.0
2	Iceland	Europe	0.0
3	New Caledonia	Asia-Pacific	0.0
4	Puerto Rico	Americas	0.0
5	Japan	Asia-Pacific	0.0
6	Switzerland	Europe	0.1
7	Finland	Europe	0.1
8	Australia	Asia-Pacific	0.1
9	France	Europe	0.2
10	Denmark	Europe	0.3
11	South Korea	Asia-Pacific	0.3
12	Mozambique	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.3
13	Timor-Leste	Asia-Pacific	0.4
14	Austria	Europe	0.4
15	Spain	Europe	0.4
16	Norway	Europe	0.4
17	Germany	Europe	0.4
18	Thailand	Asia-Pacific	0.4
19	Italy	Europe	0.4
20	United Kingdom	Europe	0.6
21	Philippines	Asia-Pacific	0.7
22	Cyprus	Europe	0.7
23	Luxembourg	Europe	0.7
24	Netherlands	Europe	0.7
25	Canada	Americas	0.8
26	Belgium	Europe	0.8
27	Slovenia	Europe	0.8
28	Sweden	Europe	0.9
29	Greece	Europe	1.0
30	New Zealand	Asia-Pacific	1.0
31	Argentina	Americas	1.0
32	Portugal	Europe	1.1
33	North Korea	Asia-Pacific	1.1
34	Lesotho	Sub-Saharan Africa	1.1
35	United States	Americas	1.2
36	Ireland	Europe	1.3
37	Vanuatu	Asia-Pacific	1.5
38	Zambia	Sub-Saharan Africa	1.6
39	South Africa	Sub-Saharan Africa	1.8
40	Tanzania	Sub-Saharan Africa	1.8
41	Madagascar	Sub-Saharan Africa	1.9
42	Qatar	Middle East & North Africa	2.1
43	Oman	Middle East & North Africa	2.2
44	United Arab Emirates	Middle East & North Africa	2.4
45	Brazil	Americas	2.4
46	Paraguay	Americas	2.5
47	Malawi	Sub-Saharan Africa	2.6
48	India	Asia-Pacific	2.7
49	Indonesia	Asia-Pacific	3.2
50	Malaysia	Asia-Pacific	3.4
51	Uruguay	Americas	3.9
52	Lithuania	Europe	3.9
53	Poland	Europe	4.0
54	Papua New Guinea	Asia-Pacific	4.8
55	Bolivia	Americas	4.9
56	Solomon Islands	Asia-Pacific	5.4
57	Costa Rica	Americas	6.2
58	Saudi Arabia	Middle East & North Africa	6.9
59	Benin	Sub-Saharan Africa	7.4
60	Bulgaria	Europe	7.4
61	Panama	Americas	7.4
62	Suriname	Americas	7.9
63	Estonia	Europe	9.3
64	Dominican Republic	Americas	9.5
65	Latvia	Europe	9.6
66	Czechia	Europe	9.8
67	Botswana	Sub-Saharan Africa	9.9
68	China	Asia-Pacific	10.8
69	Slovakia	Europe	12.1
70	Eswatini	Sub-Saharan Africa	12.1
71	Israel	Middle East & North Africa	13.9
72	Uzbekistan	Eurasia	14.2
73	Romania	Europe	15.4
74	Bangladesh	Asia-Pacific	16.4
75	Algeria	Middle East & North Africa	18.8
76	Peru	Americas	18.9
77	Vietnam	Asia-Pacific	19.8
78	Kazakhstan	Eurasia	20.0
79	Egypt	Middle East & North Africa	20.4
80	Hungary	Europe	20.5
81	Kenya	Sub-Saharan Africa	20.7
82	Uganda	Sub-Saharan Africa	20.7
83	Namibia	Sub-Saharan Africa	21.3
84	Equatorial Guinea	Sub-Saharan Africa	22.5
85	Chile	Americas	24.3
86	Belize	Americas	24.9
87	Nepal	Asia-Pacific	26.4
88	Fiji	Asia-Pacific	26.7
89	Ecuador	Americas	27.7
90	Morocco	Middle East & North Africa	27.9
91	Tunisia	Middle East & North Africa	29.3
92	Mexico	Americas	30.0
93	Trinidad and Tobago	Americas	31.4
94	Angola	Sub-Saharan Africa	33.1
95	Pakistan	Asia-Pacific	34.3
96	Turkmenistan	Eurasia	34.4
97	Gabon	Sub-Saharan Africa	37.3
98	Guyana	Americas	37.7
99	Tajikistan	Eurasia	38.2
100	Jordan	Middle East & North Africa	43.2
101	Ghana	Sub-Saharan Africa	43.8
102	Kyrgyzstan	Eurasia	47.3
103	Zimbabwe	Sub-Saharan Africa	48.0
104	Kuwait	Middle East & North Africa	61.2
105	Cambodia	Asia-Pacific	65.1
106	Russia	Eurasia	66.9
107	Senegal	Sub-Saharan Africa	70.0
108	Mongolia	Asia-Pacific	72.0
109	Chad	Sub-Saharan Africa	72.0
110	Laos	Asia-Pacific	84.4
111	Guinea-Bissau	Sub-Saharan Africa	86.3
112	Jamaica	Americas	89.9
113	Liberia	Sub-Saharan Africa	90.6
114	Côte d'Ivoire	Sub-Saharan Africa	92.2
115	Sierra Leone	Sub-Saharan Africa	93.1
116	North Macedonia	Europe	110.4
117	Montenegro	Europe	119.5
118	Ethiopia	Sub-Saharan Africa	124.5
119	Yemen	Middle East & North Africa	126.6
120	Colombia	Americas	147.1
121	Togo	Sub-Saharan Africa	150.9
122	Turkey	Eurasia	159.6
123	Niger	Sub-Saharan Africa	163.2
124	Lebanon	Middle East & North Africa	164.2
125	Iran	Middle East & North Africa	172.7
126	Djibouti	Sub-Saharan Africa	175.8
127	Belarus	Eurasia	195.5
128	Guatemala	Americas	197.3
129	Nigeria	Sub-Saharan Africa	201.0
130	Moldova	Eurasia	205.5
131	Cuba	Americas	217.4
132	Congo	Sub-Saharan Africa	222.8
133	Libya	Middle East & North Africa	233.5
134	Guinea	Sub-Saharan Africa	285.3
135	Gambia	Sub-Saharan Africa	294.9
136	Bahamas	Americas	361.1
137	Cameroon	Sub-Saharan Africa	377.2
138	Nicaragua	Americas	434.1
139	Georgia	Eurasia	434.8
140	Croatia	Europe	461.7
141	Armenia	Eurasia	535.8
142	Sri Lanka	Asia-Pacific	636.4
143	Burkina Faso	Sub-Saharan Africa	637.3
144	Iraq	Middle East & North Africa	663.5
145	Mauritania	Sub-Saharan Africa	737.2
146	Albania	Europe	783.6
147	Palestine	Middle East & North Africa	795.2
148	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Europe	847.6
149	Honduras	Americas	932.7
150	Bhutan	Asia-Pacific	939.1
151	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Sub-Saharan Africa	970.1
152	El Salvador	Americas	1,132.3
153	Haiti	Americas	1,259.3
154	Venezuela	Americas	1,303.2
155	Mali	Sub-Saharan Africa	1,446.5
156	Azerbaijan	Eurasia	1,481.7
157	Rwanda	Sub-Saharan Africa	1,747.2
158	Burundi	Sub-Saharan Africa	2,295.5
159	Myanmar	Asia-Pacific	2,426.6
160	Sudan	Sub-Saharan Africa	4,151.5
161	Somalia	Sub-Saharan Africa	4,703.3
162	Central African Republic	Sub-Saharan Africa	13,009.0
163	Afghanistan	Asia-Pacific	13,521.0
164	Ukraine	Eurasia	13,524.0
165	Eritrea	Sub-Saharan Africa	15,593.0
166	South Sudan	Sub-Saharan Africa	19,179.0
167	Syria	Middle East & North Africa	24,124.0
168	Western Sahara	Middle East & North Africa	29,564.0

Data by year

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Source and licence

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees — Refugee Data Finder

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