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Israel — forced displacement statistics — 1951–2025.

Hosting fell to 4% of ten years agoMost refugees from here are now in CanadaLargest origin of refugees hosted here: Eritrea

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Hosted in Israel · Refugees
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Originating from Israel · Refugees
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Resident population · 0
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UN WPP 2024

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 (2)
  • All · STA · Now in — This figure does not include potentially stateless Bedouin or former USSR citizens who may be stateless.
  • All · STA · Now in — The figure does not include potentially stateless Bedouin nor all stateless former USSR citizens.

1951–2025 time series

Hosting Originating

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 31,045 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)

CountryRefugeesAsylum-seekers
Lebanon3,9090
Ethiopia22197
Sierra Leone10867
Eritrea030
Congo611
Syria55
Iraq70
Ghana06
Armenia05
Liberia05

Top host countries

Top host countries (2000)

CountryRefugeesAsylum-seekers
Canada264233
United States4468
Sweden340
Netherlands (Kingdom of the)275
Australia1014
Switzerland023
Belgium180
Denmark75
Germany07
Peru07

Source: UNHCR Refugee Population Statistics Database (data as of 31 December 2025; retrieved 19 August 2026). UNHCR · CC-BY-4.0

Sources

SourceLicensedata as ofretrievedStatus
UNHCR — Refugee Population Statistics Database — country listCC-BY-4.02026-08-192026-08-19up to date
UNHCR — Refugee Population Statistics Database — population figuresCC-BY-4.02025-12-312026-08-19up to date
UNHCR — Refugee Population Statistics Database — demographicsCC-BY-4.02025-12-312026-08-19up to date
UNHCR (data: IDMC) — IDMC internal displacement figures via UNHCR APICC-BY-IGO2025-12-312026-08-19up to date
UNHCR — Refugee Population Statistics Database — solutionsCC-BY-4.02025-12-312026-08-19up to date
UNHCR — Refugee Population Statistics Database — asylum applicationsCC-BY-4.02025-12-312026-08-19up to date
UNHCR — Refugee Population Statistics Database — footnotesCC-BY-4.02025-12-312026-08-19up to date
United Nations, DESA, Population Division — World Population Prospects 2024 — total population by sexCC-BY-3.0-IGO2023-07-012026-08-19up to date
Natural Earth (via world-atlas) — Admin 0 – Countries, 1:50mPublic Domain2022-05-012026-08-19up to date

Snapshot f1a2b53a · Methodology · Boundaries

Data coverage

How complete is the record for this country — metric by metric.

ValueHosting / OriginatingFirst reportedFirst non-zeroLast reportedYears reportedLongest gap
RefugeesHosting19981998202528/28—
RefugeesOriginating19881988202538/38—
Asylum-seekersHosting19982000202528/28—
Asylum-seekersOriginating19882000202538/38—
Stateless personsHosting20042010202522/22—
Others of concernHosting19982008202528/28—
Others of concernOriginating19882025202538/38—
Returned refugeesHosting19981998202528/28—
Returned refugeesOriginating19881996202538/38—

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).