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Myanmar
Myanmar — forced displacement statistics — 1951–2025.
5.4% of the world’s refugees fled from hereMost refugees from here are now in BangladeshPeak: 0 hosted in 2005
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 (4)
- All · IDP · Now in — IDP figure in Myanmar includes 120,000 persons in an IDP-like situation.
- All · IDP · Now in — The figures include an estimated 141,000 stateless IDPs who are also of concern under the statelessness mandate.
- All · IDP · Fled from — IDP figure in Myanmar includes 120,000 persons in an IDP-like situation.
- All · STA · Now in — The estimated figure of persons of concern under the statelessness mandate relates to stateless persons of Rohingya ethnicity in Rakhine State and also includes stateless IDPs in Myanmar. The number of persons of undetermined nationality residing in other states or regions in Myanmar is not currently available. The number of stateless persons remaining in Rakhine State following violence in 2016 and 2017 and large scale departures to Bangladesh is based on detailed estimates for each village tract made by UNHCR, other UN agencies and NGOs in early 2018, which concluded that between 532,000 to 600,000 Rohingya remained in Rakhine State (including an estimated 140,886 of those Rohingya who have been internally displaced). For the purposes of this report, the higher range of this estimate has been used.
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
Not reported
Top host countries
Top host countries (2000)
| Country | Refugees | Asylum-seekers |
|---|---|---|
| Thailand | 104,569 | 171 |
| Bangladesh | 21,556 | 0 |
| Malaysia | 5,134 | 5 |
| United States | 3,006 | 485 |
| Australia | 962 | 156 |
| India | 779 | 13 |
| Canada | 391 | 11 |
| New Zealand | 209 | 0 |
| Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 122 | 39 |
| Japan | 72 | 34 |
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 | Originating | 1972 | 1972 | 2025 | 40/54 | 8 yr |
| Asylum-seekers | Originating | 1972 | 2000 | 2025 | 40/54 | 8 yr |
| Internally displaced (IDPs) | Hosting | 2005 | 2006 | 2025 | 21/21 | — |
| Internally displaced (IDPs) | Originating | 1972 | 2006 | 2025 | 40/54 | 8 yr |
| Stateless persons | Hosting | 2005 | 2005 | 2025 | 21/21 | — |
| Others of concern | Originating | 1972 | 2003 | 2025 | 40/54 | 8 yr |
| Returned refugees | Originating | 1972 | 1978 | 2025 | 40/54 | 8 yr |
| Returned IDPs | Hosting | 2005 | 2013 | 2025 | 21/21 | — |
| Returned IDPs | Originating | 1972 | 2013 | 2025 | 40/54 | 8 yr |
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).