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Palestine
Name as used by UNHCR: State of Palestine
UNHCR figures exclude Palestine refugees registered with UNRWA (~6 million), who are counted by UNRWA separately. Boundaries →
Palestine — forced displacement statistics — 1951–2025.
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 · REF · Fled from — Refers to Palestinians under the UNHCR mandate only.
- All · REF,ROC,ASY,IDP,IOC,STA,OOC,RET,RDP,HST,OIP,RST,NAT · Fled from — Refers to Palestinian refugees under the UNHCR mandate only.
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 13 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
Not reported
Top host countries
Top host countries (2000)
| Country | Refugees | Asylum-seekers |
|---|---|---|
| Iraq | 90,000 | 0 |
| Libya | 8,500 | 0 |
| Denmark | 4,863 | 165 |
| Algeria | 4,000 | 0 |
| Kuwait | 1,261 | 0 |
| Morocco | 800 | 0 |
| Kazakhstan | 351 | 0 |
| Tunisia | 298 | 0 |
| Australia | 55 | 93 |
| Yemen | 45 | 80 |
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 | 1976 | 1976 | 2025 | 44/50 | 5 yr |
| Asylum-seekers | Originating | 1976 | 2000 | 2025 | 44/50 | 5 yr |
| Others of concern | Originating | 1976 | 1997 | 2025 | 44/50 | 5 yr |
| Returned refugees | Originating | 1976 | 1994 | 2025 | 44/50 | 5 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).