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Bulgaria
Bulgaria — forced displacement statistics — 1951–2025.
Refugees hosted ×6.38 in ten yearsMost refugees from here are now in United StatesLargest origin of refugees hosted here: Ukraine
Source: UNHCR Refugee Population Statistics Database (data as of 31 December 2025; retrieved 19 August 2026). UNHCR · CC-BY-4.0
Year-end 0
Not reported
UNHCR footnotes (1)
- All · REF · Now in — No official data on the actual number of refugees residing in Bulgaria is available. According to estimates, between 1,000 and 2,000 refugees and humanitarian status holders remain in the country. It is expected that the 2021 National Census, which will include for the first-time refugee and stateless populations, will provide more accurate data by end of 2022.
1951–2025 time series
Source: UNHCR Refugee Population Statistics Database (data as of 31 December 2025; retrieved 19 August 2026). UNHCR · CC-BY-4.0
Age and sex (0)
Age and sex (2010)
Source: UNHCR Refugee Population Statistics Database (data as of 31 December 2025; retrieved 19 August 2026). UNHCR · CC-BY-4.0
Top countries of origin
Top countries of origin (2000)
| Country | Refugees | Asylum-seekers |
|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | 786 | 428 |
| Iraq | 102 | 225 |
| Armenia | 0 | 326 |
| Stateless (no country of origin) | 141 | 22 |
| Serbia | 110 | 22 |
| Iran | 61 | 49 |
| Türkiye | 35 | 26 |
| Ethiopia | 48 | 0 |
| DR Congo | 25 | 18 |
| Syria | 11 | 25 |
Top host countries
Top host countries (2000)
| Country | Refugees | Asylum-seekers |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 649 | 600 |
| Canada | 588 | 264 |
| Sweden | 658 | 0 |
| South Africa | 0 | 221 |
| Czechia | 38 | 103 |
| France | 129 | 0 |
| Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 76 | 24 |
| Australia | 24 | 47 |
| Switzerland | 36 | 27 |
| Austria | 62 | 0 |
Source: UNHCR Refugee Population Statistics Database (data as of 31 December 2025; retrieved 19 August 2026). UNHCR · CC-BY-4.0
Sources
| Source | License | data as of | retrieved | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UNHCR — Refugee Population Statistics Database — country list | CC-BY-4.0 | 2026-08-19 | 2026-08-19 | up to date |
| UNHCR — Refugee Population Statistics Database — population figures | CC-BY-4.0 | 2025-12-31 | 2026-08-19 | up to date |
| UNHCR — Refugee Population Statistics Database — demographics | CC-BY-4.0 | 2025-12-31 | 2026-08-19 | up to date |
| UNHCR (data: IDMC) — IDMC internal displacement figures via UNHCR API | CC-BY-IGO | 2025-12-31 | 2026-08-19 | up to date |
| UNHCR — Refugee Population Statistics Database — solutions | CC-BY-4.0 | 2025-12-31 | 2026-08-19 | up to date |
| UNHCR — Refugee Population Statistics Database — asylum applications | CC-BY-4.0 | 2025-12-31 | 2026-08-19 | up to date |
| UNHCR — Refugee Population Statistics Database — footnotes | CC-BY-4.0 | 2025-12-31 | 2026-08-19 | up to date |
| United Nations, DESA, Population Division — World Population Prospects 2024 — total population by sex | CC-BY-3.0-IGO | 2023-07-01 | 2026-08-19 | up to date |
| Natural Earth (via world-atlas) — Admin 0 – Countries, 1:50m | Public Domain | 2022-05-01 | 2026-08-19 | up to date |
Snapshot f1a2b53a · Methodology · Boundaries
Data coverage
How complete is the record for this country — metric by metric.
| Value | Hosting / Originating | First reported | First non-zero | Last reported | Years reported | Longest gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Refugees | Hosting | 1992 | 1992 | 2025 | 34/34 | — |
| Refugees | Originating | 1969 | 1969 | 2025 | 54/57 | 2 yr |
| Asylum-seekers | Hosting | 1992 | 2000 | 2025 | 34/34 | — |
| Asylum-seekers | Originating | 1969 | 2000 | 2025 | 54/57 | 2 yr |
| Stateless persons | Hosting | 2004 | 2014 | 2025 | 22/22 | — |
| Others of concern | Originating | 1969 | 2019 | 2025 | 54/57 | 2 yr |
| Returned refugees | Hosting | 1992 | 1995 | 2025 | 34/34 | — |
A missing year is not zero — it is missing. And the start of counting is not the start of events: several metrics only began collection later (stateless 2004, OIP 2018; the IDP series runs from 1993 and switches to IDMC compilation in 2009).