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Mexico
Mexico — forced displacement statistics — 1951–2025.
Refugees hosted ×52.34 in ten yearsMost refugees from here are now in United StatesLargest origin of refugees hosted here: Honduras
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 · IDP · Now in — The IDP figure can be found at CONAPO (2021) "Diagnóstico nacional sobre la situación del desplazamiento forzado interno en México" (https://www.gob.mx/cms/uploads/attachment/file/681782/Diagn_stico_nacional_sobre_la_situaci_n_del_desplazamiento_forzado_interno.pdf), where it is mentioned that 262,411 IDPs were displaced due to insecurity causes (pg18) and 24,376 IDPs due to disasters (pg 49). These calculations are based on 2020 Population and Housing Census carried out by INEGI.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Guatemala | 16,031 | 0 |
| El Salvador | 1,960 | 0 |
| Colombia | 61 | 0 |
| Peru | 39 | 0 |
| Cuba | 31 | 6 |
| Somalia | 36 | 0 |
| Iran | 31 | 0 |
| Honduras | 30 | 0 |
| Nicaragua | 27 | 0 |
| Congo | 23 | 0 |
Top host countries
Top host countries (2000)
| Country | Refugees | Asylum-seekers |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 470 | 11,902 |
| Canada | 811 | 1,156 |
| Australia | 7 | 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 | 1994 | 1994 | 2025 | 32/32 | — |
| Asylum-seekers | Hosting | 1970 | 2000 | 2025 | 54/56 | 2 yr |
| Asylum-seekers | Originating | 1994 | 2000 | 2025 | 32/32 | — |
| Internally displaced (IDPs) | Hosting | 1970 | 2022 | 2025 | 54/56 | 2 yr |
| Internally displaced (IDPs) | Originating | 1994 | 2022 | 2025 | 32/32 | — |
| Stateless persons | Hosting | 2004 | 2010 | 2025 | 22/22 | — |
| Others of concern | Hosting | 1970 | 2018 | 2025 | 54/56 | 2 yr |
| Others of concern | Originating | 1994 | 2022 | 2025 | 32/32 | — |
| Returned refugees | Hosting | 1970 | 1979 | 2025 | 54/56 | 2 yr |
| Returned refugees | Originating | 1994 | 2000 | 2025 | 32/32 | — |
| Other people in need of international protection | Hosting | 2018 | 2018 | 2025 | 8/8 | — |
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).