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Croatia
Croatia — forced displacement statistics — 1951–2025.
Refugees hosted ×57.54 in ten yearsMost refugees from here are now in SerbiaLargest 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 (3)
- All · REF · Fled from — UNHCR has recommended on 4 April 2014 to start the process of cessation of refugee status for refugees from Croatia displaced during the 1991-95 conflict. The Office suggests that cessation enters into effect latest by the end of 2017.
- All · STA · Now in — Figure from the 2011 census. It includes 23 persons registered as stateless by the Government of Croatia.
- All · STA · Now in — Figure from the 2011 census. It includes 28 persons registered as stateless by the Government of Croatia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 20,889 | 0 |
| Serbia | 1,543 | 5 |
| Iran | 0 | 7 |
| Armenia | 5 | 0 |
| Russia | 0 | 5 |
Top host countries
Top host countries (2000)
| Country | Refugees | Asylum-seekers |
|---|---|---|
| Serbia | 289,924 | 0 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 24,877 | 0 |
| United States | 4,927 | 80 |
| Australia | 4,902 | 13 |
| Canada | 4,426 | 23 |
| Sweden | 2,863 | 0 |
| Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 1,310 | 189 |
| Norway | 1,344 | 0 |
| Switzerland | 121 | 22 |
| Denmark | 122 | 11 |
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 | 1992 | 1992 | 2025 | 34/34 | — |
| Asylum-seekers | Hosting | 1992 | 2000 | 2025 | 34/34 | — |
| Asylum-seekers | Originating | 1992 | 2000 | 2025 | 34/34 | — |
| Internally displaced (IDPs) | — | 1992 | 1993 | 2025 | 34/34 | — |
| Stateless persons | Hosting | 2004 | 2004 | 2025 | 22/22 | — |
| Others of concern | Hosting | 1992 | 1998 | 2025 | 34/34 | — |
| Others of concern | Originating | 1992 | 2008 | 2025 | 34/34 | — |
| Returned refugees | Hosting | 1992 | 1996 | 2025 | 34/34 | — |
| Returned refugees | Originating | 1992 | 1992 | 2025 | 34/34 | — |
| Returned IDPs | — | 1992 | 1998 | 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).