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United Kingdom
Name as used by UNHCR: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
United Kingdom — forced displacement statistics — 1951–2025.
#14 host country for refugees (2025)Refugees hosted ×4.72 in ten yearsMost refugees from here are now in Canada
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 (3)
- All · ASY · Now in — Asylum applications which are reported as cases can be multiplied overall by average number of person per case of 1.3 when summarising the data by country of asylum, but not origin. This is due to the significant variance in the average case size by country of origin.
- All · ASY · Now in — Data refers to number of cases or mix of persons and cases.
- All · STA · Now in — Figure refers to persons who have been recognized as stateless through the statelessness determination procedure in 2013 - 2016.
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)
A total of 253,218 was reported for this year, but no age/sex breakdown — common for high-income host countries.
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 | 74,981 | 88,600 |
| Somalia | 26,891 | 0 |
| Serbia | 15,440 | 0 |
| Sri Lanka | 10,605 | 0 |
| Iraq | 9,510 | 0 |
| Türkiye | 7,115 | 0 |
| Afghanistan | 5,675 | 0 |
| Ethiopia | 4,935 | 0 |
| Iran | 3,390 | 0 |
| Uganda | 3,150 | 0 |
Top host countries
Top host countries (2000)
| Country | Refugees | Asylum-seekers |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 77 | 56 |
| Canada | 32 | 8 |
| Australia | 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 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 | 1951 | 1951 | 2025 | 75/75 | — |
| Refugees | Originating | 1994 | 1994 | 2025 | 32/32 | — |
| Asylum-seekers | Hosting | 1951 | 2000 | 2025 | 75/75 | — |
| Asylum-seekers | Originating | 1994 | 2000 | 2025 | 32/32 | — |
| Stateless persons | Hosting | 2004 | 2005 | 2025 | 22/22 | — |
| Others of concern | Hosting | 1951 | 2019 | 2025 | 75/75 | — |
| Returned refugees | Hosting | 1951 | 1992 | 2025 | 75/75 | — |
| Returned refugees | Originating | 1994 | 2024 | 2025 | 32/32 | — |
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).