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Poland — forced displacement statistics — 1951–2025.
26 refugees per 1,000 residents — #17 worldwide#8 host country for refugees (2025)Refugees hosted ×70.46 in ten years
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 · STA · Now in — Figure is from the 2011 census, likely to include 2,020 persons registered as stateless by the authorities.
- All · STA · Now in — There is no official data on statelessness in Poland. The reported figure refers to the number of stateless people holding a personal identification number issued by the Government, which does not cover all stateless people in the country. The figure additionally includes stateless asylum-seekers and refugees (including beneficiaries of temporary protection) in Poland.
- All · STA · Now in — There is no official data on statelessness in Poland. The reported figure refers to the number of stateless persons holding a personal identification number issued by the Government, which does not cover 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)
A total of 18,411 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)
| Country | Refugees | Asylum-seekers |
|---|---|---|
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 387 | 0 |
| Somalia | 176 | 0 |
| Sri Lanka | 66 | 0 |
| Afghanistan | 51 | 0 |
| Iraq | 37 | 0 |
| Russia | 37 | 0 |
| Sudan | 25 | 0 |
| Ethiopia | 23 | 0 |
| Serbia | 19 | 0 |
| Iran | 16 | 0 |
Top host countries
Top host countries (2000)
| Country | Refugees | Asylum-seekers |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 155 | 340 |
| France | 288 | 0 |
| United States | 57 | 112 |
| Sweden | 113 | 0 |
| United Kingdom | 75 | 0 |
| Germany | 0 | 73 |
| Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 59 | 10 |
| Switzerland | 37 | 5 |
| Morocco | 27 | 0 |
| Denmark | 12 | 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 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 | Hosting | 1991 | 1991 | 2025 | 35/35 | — |
| Refugees | Originating | 1970 | 1970 | 2025 | 54/56 | 1 yr |
| Asylum-seekers | Hosting | 1991 | 2002 | 2025 | 35/35 | — |
| Asylum-seekers | Originating | 1970 | 2000 | 2025 | 54/56 | 1 yr |
| Stateless persons | Hosting | 2004 | 2005 | 2025 | 22/22 | — |
| Others of concern | Hosting | 1991 | 2022 | 2025 | 35/35 | — |
| Returned refugees | Hosting | 1991 | 1992 | 2025 | 35/35 | — |
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).