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Germany
Germany — forced displacement statistics — 1951–2025.
31.6 refugees per 1,000 residents — #12 worldwide#1 host country for refugees (2025)Refugees hosted ×8.4 in ten years
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 · STA · Now in — The figure does not represent the entire number of persons registered as stateless in the German Central Aliens Register. The number of stateless persons holding a humanitarian residence title (not all of whom are persons of concern to UNHCR) and the number of stateless asylum-seekers have been deducted from it.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown origin | 876,000 | 460 |
| Serbia | 0 | 36,608 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 30,000 | 726 |
| Afghanistan | 0 | 9,229 |
| Türkiye | 0 | 3,871 |
| Iraq | 0 | 3,655 |
| Iran | 0 | 2,622 |
| Russia | 0 | 1,969 |
| Syria | 0 | 1,046 |
| Sierra Leone | 0 | 874 |
Top host countries
Top host countries (2000)
| Country | Refugees | Asylum-seekers |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 1,125 | 13 |
| United States | 23 | 34 |
| Australia | 25 | 0 |
| Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 0 | 10 |
| Sweden | 9 | 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 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 | 1951 | 1951 | 2025 | 75/75 | — |
| Refugees | Originating | 1991 | 1991 | 2025 | 35/35 | — |
| Asylum-seekers | Hosting | 1951 | 2000 | 2025 | 75/75 | — |
| Asylum-seekers | Originating | 1991 | 2000 | 2025 | 35/35 | — |
| Stateless persons | Hosting | 2004 | 2004 | 2025 | 22/22 | — |
| Others of concern | Hosting | 1951 | 2008 | 2025 | 75/75 | — |
| Returned refugees | Hosting | 1951 | 1995 | 2025 | 75/75 | — |
| Returned refugees | Originating | 1991 | 2024 | 2025 | 35/35 | — |
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).