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Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea — forced displacement statistics — 1951–2025.
Most refugees from here are now in AustraliaLargest origin of refugees hosted here: IndonesiaPeak: 11,839 hosted in 2021
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 — The figures reported reflects stateless persons of Rohingya ethnicity who are also counted as refugees from Myanmar, mainly from Rakhine State. The figure reflected does not represent an estimation of the entire stateless population.
- All · STA · Now in — The number of reported stateless people reflects only those individually known to UNHCR and partners. It does not include an estimate of all stateless people in the country.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 5,862 | 0 |
Top host countries
Top host countries (2000)
| Country | Refugees | Asylum-seekers |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 6 | 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 | 1978 | 1978 | 2025 | 48/48 | — |
| Refugees | Originating | 1995 | 1995 | 2025 | 31/31 | — |
| Asylum-seekers | Hosting | 1978 | 2002 | 2025 | 48/48 | — |
| Asylum-seekers | Originating | 1995 | 2002 | 2025 | 31/31 | — |
| Internally displaced (IDPs) | Hosting | 1978 | 2020 | 2025 | 48/48 | — |
| Internally displaced (IDPs) | Originating | 1995 | 2020 | 2025 | 31/31 | — |
| Stateless persons | Hosting | 2004 | 2004 | 2025 | 22/22 | — |
| Others of concern | Hosting | 1978 | 2000 | 2025 | 48/48 | — |
| Others of concern | Originating | 1995 | 2023 | 2025 | 31/31 | — |
| Returned refugees | Hosting | 1978 | 1983 | 2025 | 48/48 | — |
| Host community | Hosting | 1978 | 2023 | 2025 | 48/48 | — |
| Host community | Originating | 1995 | 2023 | 2025 | 31/31 | — |
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).