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Brazil
Brazil — forced displacement statistics — 1951–2025.
Refugees hosted ×32.05 in ten yearsMost refugees from here are now in United StatesLargest origin of refugees hosted here: Venezuela
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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Angola | 1,579 | 206 |
| Liberia | 255 | 5 |
| Romania | 0 | 241 |
| DR Congo | 182 | 8 |
| Sierra Leone | 132 | 14 |
| Cuba | 88 | 0 |
| Iraq | 72 | 5 |
| Serbia | 61 | 5 |
| Peru | 39 | 0 |
| Nigeria | 25 | 7 |
Top host countries
Top host countries (2000)
| Country | Refugees | Asylum-seekers |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 173 | 573 |
| Canada | 32 | 55 |
| Australia | 15 | 16 |
| Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 0 | 5 |
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 a3bf514b · 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 | 1969 | 1969 | 2025 | 57/57 | — |
| Refugees | Originating | 1971 | 1971 | 2025 | 46/55 | 7 yr |
| Asylum-seekers | Hosting | 1969 | 2000 | 2025 | 57/57 | — |
| Asylum-seekers | Originating | 1971 | 2000 | 2025 | 46/55 | 7 yr |
| Stateless persons | Hosting | 2004 | 2005 | 2025 | 22/22 | — |
| Others of concern | Hosting | 1969 | 2005 | 2025 | 57/57 | — |
| Others of concern | Originating | 1971 | 2022 | 2025 | 46/55 | 7 yr |
| Returned refugees | Hosting | 1969 | 1984 | 2025 | 57/57 | — |
| Returned refugees | Originating | 1971 | 1994 | 2025 | 46/55 | 7 yr |
| Other people in need of international protection | Hosting | 2018 | 2018 | 2025 | 8/8 | — |
| Host community | Hosting | 1969 | 2021 | 2025 | 57/57 | — |
| Host community | Originating | 1971 | 2021 | 2025 | 46/55 | 7 yr |
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).