Refugees by Country 2023

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Interactive Map Introduction Number of Refugees by Country Afghanistan Albania Algeria Andorra Angola Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Brunei Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Chile Colombia Comoros Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Curaçao Cyprus Czech Republic Democratic Republic of the Congo Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic East Timor Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Eswatini Ethiopia Fiji Finland France Gabon Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Grenada Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Ivory Coast Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Liechtenstein Lithuania Macau Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Mauritania Mauritius Mexico Moldova Mongolia Montenegro Morocco Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Nauru Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria North Korea Norway Oman Pakistan Palestine Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay People's Republic of China Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Qatar Republic of Macedonia Republic of the Congo Romania Russia Rwanda Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines São Tomé and Príncipe Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa South Korea South Sudan Spain Sri Lanka Sudan Suriname Sweden Switzerland Syria Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand The Bahamas The Gambia Togo Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Turks and Caicos Islands Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States of America Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vatican City Venezuela Vietnam Western Sahara Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe

Introduction

A refugee can be defined as a person who is forced to flee their native country from war, persecutory violence (for reasons of race, religion, or nationality), or devastating natural disasters. Refugees flee their country – often leaving behind their belongings, jobs, and families – and seek to enter a neighboring country. If the neighboring country is likewise affected by war, conflicts, and violence, the refugees may go on to seek asylum and refuge in the next safest country. Refugees seldom arrive alone, but generally in groups.

Although refugees are encouraged to enter a country legally, using the legal processes to naturalize new citizens that are in place along a country’s borders, some refugees may arrive in a country illegally. Depending on the regulation that is in place within the receiving country, individuals who seek refuge could be naturalized, arrested, or deported. Processing refugees and relocating them en masse can be a great challenge for countries to handle well, and processes may differ greatly from one country to another. Yet, they are uniformly protected in international law by the 1951 Refugee Convention.

Learn more about refugees by country by investigating the data in the charts.

#	Country	Number of Refugees	Number of Immigrants
1	Syria	6,848,865	868,711
2	Afghanistan	2,712,869	144,098
3	South Sudan	2,362,759	882,252
4	Myanmar	1,177,327	76,446
5	Democratic Republic of the Congo	908,401	952,871
6	Sudan	825,290	1,379,147
7	Somalia	776,678	58,590
8	Central African Republic	737,658	88,546
9	Eritrea	511,911	13,934
10	Nigeria	383,660	1,308,568
11	Iraq	343,899	365,766
12	Burundi	323,635	344,767
13	Vietnam	317,737	76,767
14	Rwanda	248,219	513,907
15	Venezuela	199,202	1,324,193
16	Mali	183,392	485,829
17	People's Republic of China	170,222	1,039,675
18	Sri Lanka	151,112	40,254
19	Ethiopia	149,130	1,085,517
20	Iran	142,994	2,797,235
21	Pakistan	132,818	3,276,580
22	Cameroon	125,477	579,209
23	Western Sahara	117,041	5,424
24	Colombia	115,792	1,905,393
25	Turkey	105,019	6,052,652
26	Palestine	103,581	272,784
27	Russia	68,547	11,636,911
28	El Salvador	52,041	42,767
29	Honduras	51,687	39,195
30	Ivory Coast	39,940	2,564,857
31	Azerbaijan	39,478	252,228
32	Mauritania	39,279	182,286
33	Yemen	37,615	387,113
34	Guinea	34,403	121,437
35	Serbia	31,735	823,011
36	Haiti	29,454	18,884
37	Ukraine	27,562	4,997,387
38	Egypt	27,498	543,937
39	Guatemala	26,927	84,311
40	Bangladesh	22,672	2,115,408
41	Niger	21,901	348,056
42	Burkina Faso	20,209	723,989
43	Albania	19,847	48,810
44	Libya	19,090	826,537
45	Bosnia and Herzegovina	18,189	36,042
46	Croatia	18,083	528,056
47	Mexico	16,403	1,197,624
48	Senegal	15,129	274,929
49	Republic of the Congo	14,253	387,606
50	Ghana	14,251	476,412
51	India	14,230	4,878,704
52	Indonesia	13,962	355,505
53	Armenia	12,255	190,349
54	Cambodia	12,072	79,341
55	Chad	11,771	547,494
56	Cuba	11,534	3,024
57	Angola	11,403	656,434
58	The Gambia	11,042	215,659
59	Nicaragua	11,041	42,167
60	Georgia	9,754	79,368
61	Zimbabwe	8,115	416,141
62	Togo	7,985	279,936
63	Uganda	7,887	1,720,313
64	Kenya	7,529	1,050,147
65	Nepal	7,029	487,564
66	Laos	6,778	48,731
67	Bhutan	6,702	53,612
68	Sierra Leone	6,615	53,746
69	Lebanon	6,061	1,712,762
70	Algeria	6,003	250,378
71	Morocco	5,385	102,358
72	Liberia	5,384	87,947
73	Hungary	4,653	584,567
74	Belarus	4,632	1,067,090
75	Peru	3,521	1,224,519
76	Kazakhstan	3,198	3,732,073
77	Kyrgyzstan	3,035	199,011
78	Uzbekistan	3,014	1,162,007
79	Jordan	2,981	3,457,691
80	Djibouti	2,607	119,738
81	Mongolia	2,508	21,345
82	Jamaica	2,419	23,629
83	Tajikistan	2,412	276,031
84	Tunisia	2,201	60,145
85	Moldova	2,190	104,438
86	Saudi Arabia	2,167	13,454,842
87	Guinea-Bissau	2,039	17,945
88	Brazil	1,954	1,079,708
89	Republic of Macedonia	1,842	131,311
90	Ecuador	1,825	784,787
91	Kuwait	1,702	3,110,159
92	Comoros	1,670	12,496
93	Slovakia	1,426	197,161
94	Romania	1,417	705,310
95	Malaysia	1,182	3,476,560
96	Chile	987	1,645,015
97	Poland	887	817,254
98	Czech Republic	758	540,921
99	Tanzania	752	426,017
100	The Bahamas	736	63,583
101	Benin	730	394,276
102	South Africa	643	2,860,495
103	Dominican Republic	635	603,794
104	Montenegro	623	70,999
105	Gabon	620	416,651
106	Turkmenistan	563	194,920
107	Bolivia	549	164,121
108	North Korea	528	49,549
109	Philippines	521	225,525
110	Malawi	513	191,362
111	Papua New Guinea	507	31,068
112	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	467	4,738
113	Saint Lucia	457	8,338
114	Bulgaria	455	184,363
115	Israel	453	1,953,575
116	Namibia	441	109,391
117	United States of America	426	50,632,836
118	Madagascar	425	35,563
119	Bahrain	416	936,094
120	Fiji	414	14,087
121	Guyana	285	31,169
122	Trinidad and Tobago	285	78,849
123	Estonia	271	199,277
124	Barbados	265	34,869
125	Zambia	255	187,955
126	Costa Rica	235	520,729
127	Mauritius	198	28,893
128	Thailand	181	3,632,496
129	Equatorial Guinea	168	230,618
130	Eswatini	165	32,858
131	United Arab Emirates	160	8,716,332
132	Paraguay	125	169,567
133	Argentina	124	2,281,728
134	Botswana	122	110,268
135	Latvia	122	239,422
136	Panama	118	313,165
137	South Korea	117	1,728,182
138	Antigua and Barbuda	105	29,386
139	United Kingdom	101	9,359,587
140	Hong Kong	96	2,962,492
141	Mozambique	90	338,850
142	Greece	87	1,340,456
143	Belize	81	62,043
144	Maldives	80	70,079
145	Italy	61	6,386,998
146	Canada	60	8,049,323
147	Germany	59	15,762,457
148	Netherlands	58	2,358,333
149	Spain	55	6,842,202
150	Dominica	54	8,284
151	Lithuania	54	145,184
152	Oman	53	2,372,836
153	Grenada	52	7,213
154	Qatar	47	2,226,192
155	Saint Kitts and Nevis	47	7,725
156	Uruguay	45	108,267
157	Japan	39	2,770,996
158	France	38	8,524,876
159	Solomon Islands	38	2,520
160	Curaçao	35	57,210
161	Singapore	34	2,523,648
162	New Zealand	33	1,381,724
163	Belgium	29	2,005,479
164	Portugal	26	1,001,963
165	Austria	23	1,738,183
166	Suriname	22	47,801
167	Slovenia	17	277,964
168	Australia	16	7,685,860
169	Seychelles	14	13,050
170	Turks and Caicos Islands	14	25,748
171	East Timor	11	8,399
172	Sweden	9	2,003,908
173	Denmark	8	717,574
174	Malta	7	114,760
175	Marshall Islands	7	3,298
176	Lesotho	6	12,060
177	São Tomé and Príncipe	6	2,139
178	Cayman Islands	5	29,242
179	Cyprus	5	190,366
180	Finland	5	386,052
181	Iceland	5	65,424
182	Ireland	5	871,256
183	Liechtenstein	5	25,877
184	Nauru	5	2,201
185	Norway	5	852,238
186	Andorra	0	45,574
187	Anguilla	0	5,715
188	Aruba	0	53,593
189	Brunei	0	111,959
190	Macau	0	403,490
191	Switzerland	0	2,491,249
192	Vanuatu	0	3,257
193	Vatican City	0	809

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