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Colombia
Colombia — forced displacement statistics — 1951–2025.
Refugees hosted ×6.91 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
UNHCR footnotes (6)
- All · IDP · Now in — Figure is based on the total cumulative figure from the Victim’s Registry which commenced in 1985 (https://www.unidadvictimas.gov.co/en).
- All · OOC · Now in — The figure of others of concern has been provided by the Government of Colombia.
- All · OOC · Now in — The figure of 516,000 others of concern provided by the Government of Colombia is no longer reported as it reflects a historical caseload for which up-to-date information is not available.
- All · OOC · Now in — The figure of Others of concern has been provided by the Government of Colombia.
- All · OOC · Fled from — The figure of others of concern has been provided by the Government of Colombia.
- All · OOC · Fled from — The figure of 516,000 others of concern provided by the Government of Colombia is no longer reported as it reflects a historical caseload for which up-to-date information is not available.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Nicaragua | 80 | 0 |
| Chile | 30 | 0 |
| Hungary | 30 | 0 |
| Cuba | 18 | 5 |
| Iran | 13 | 7 |
| Peru | 19 | 0 |
| Serbia | 10 | 0 |
| Haiti | 8 | 0 |
| Romania | 6 | 0 |
| Angola | 5 | 0 |
Top host countries
Top host countries (2000)
| Country | Refugees | Asylum-seekers |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2,614 | 2,489 |
| Canada | 1,077 | 927 |
| Ecuador | 1,374 | 102 |
| Costa Rica | 515 | 954 |
| United Kingdom | 870 | 0 |
| Panama | 711 | 52 |
| Sweden | 622 | 0 |
| Australia | 185 | 193 |
| Spain | 345 | 0 |
| France | 245 | 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 | 1970 | 1970 | 2025 | 54/56 | 2 yr |
| Refugees | Originating | 1981 | 1981 | 2025 | 43/45 | 2 yr |
| Asylum-seekers | Hosting | 1970 | 2000 | 2025 | 54/56 | 2 yr |
| Asylum-seekers | Originating | 1981 | 2000 | 2025 | 43/45 | 2 yr |
| Internally displaced (IDPs) | Hosting | 1970 | 2000 | 2025 | 54/56 | 2 yr |
| Internally displaced (IDPs) | Originating | 1981 | 2000 | 2025 | 43/45 | 2 yr |
| Stateless persons | Hosting | 2004 | 2005 | 2025 | 22/22 | — |
| Others of concern | Hosting | 1970 | 2017 | 2025 | 54/56 | 2 yr |
| Others of concern | Originating | 1981 | 1999 | 2025 | 43/45 | 2 yr |
| Returned refugees | Hosting | 1970 | 1990 | 2025 | 54/56 | 2 yr |
| Returned refugees | Originating | 1981 | 1992 | 2025 | 43/45 | 2 yr |
| Other people in need of international protection | Hosting | 2018 | 2018 | 2025 | 8/8 | — |
| Host community | Hosting | 1970 | 2020 | 2025 | 54/56 | 2 yr |
| Host community | Originating | 1981 | 2020 | 2025 | 43/45 | 2 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).