Dataset
asylum seekers and refugees
owid.asylum-seekers-and-refugees
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About
People who fled their country of origin and are in need of international protection. Refugees are those who have already been granted asylum status in the country they moved to. This includes all refugees who live in this country, not just those who arrived that year. Regions defined by Our World in Data, which are used in OWID charts and maps.
Cite as: UNHCR (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Refugees by country of asylum” [dataset]. UNHCR, “Refugee Population Statistics Database Annual statistics for 2025” [original data].
- Publisher
- Our World in Data
- Tier
- Official
- Covers
- 1951–2025
- Places
- Countries, regions and groups of the world
- Updated
- annual
- Last modified
- 2026-10-27
- Units
- people
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/asylum-seekers-and-refugees
Columns
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| entity | text | country, region or group |
| code | text | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, OWID_ for OWID's own groups, empty for most regions |
| year | integer | |
| refugees | number | Refugees by country of asylum (people) |
| owid_region | text | World region according to OWID |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |