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Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan — forced displacement statistics — 1951–2025.

Hosting fell to 36% of ten years agoMost refugees from here are now in United StatesLargest origin of refugees hosted here: Afghanistan

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Hosted in Turkmenistan · Refugees
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Originating from Turkmenistan · Refugees
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Resident population · 0
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UN WPP 2024

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 · STA · Now in — In the absence of official data, the figure reported refers to stateless persons and persons with undetermined nationality identified by UNHCR partner organizations in Turkmenistan. The decrease in the reporting figure is due to naturalization in Turkmenistan and confirmation of nationality by a third country.

1951–2025 time series

Hosting Originating

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)

Female 10,031 (50%) · Male 10,028 · All 20,064

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)

CountryRefugeesAsylum-seekers
Tajikistan12,659349
Afghanistan1,450128
Azerbaijan6189
Iraq130
Russia50

Top host countries

Top host countries (2000)

CountryRefugeesAsylum-seekers
Russia1280
United States7810
Sweden570
Norway80
Ukraine80
Netherlands (Kingdom of the)70
Switzerland70
Czechia60
Germany05

Source: UNHCR Refugee Population Statistics Database (data as of 31 December 2025; retrieved 19 August 2026). UNHCR · CC-BY-4.0

Sources

SourceLicensedata as ofretrievedStatus
UNHCR — Refugee Population Statistics Database — country listCC-BY-4.02026-08-192026-08-19up to date
UNHCR — Refugee Population Statistics Database — population figuresCC-BY-4.02025-12-312026-08-19up to date
UNHCR — Refugee Population Statistics Database — demographicsCC-BY-4.02025-12-312026-08-19up to date
UNHCR (data: IDMC) — IDMC internal displacement figures via UNHCR APICC-BY-IGO2025-12-312026-08-19up to date
UNHCR — Refugee Population Statistics Database — solutionsCC-BY-4.02025-12-312026-08-19up to date
UNHCR — Refugee Population Statistics Database — asylum applicationsCC-BY-4.02025-12-312026-08-19up to date
UNHCR — Refugee Population Statistics Database — footnotesCC-BY-4.02025-12-312026-08-19up to date
United Nations, DESA, Population Division — World Population Prospects 2024 — total population by sexCC-BY-3.0-IGO2023-07-012026-08-19up to date
Natural Earth (via world-atlas) — Admin 0 – Countries, 1:50mPublic Domain2022-05-012026-08-19up to date

Snapshot f1a2b53a · Methodology · Boundaries

Data coverage

How complete is the record for this country — metric by metric.

ValueHosting / OriginatingFirst reportedFirst non-zeroLast reportedYears reportedLongest gap
RefugeesHosting19931993202533/33—
RefugeesOriginating19941994202532/32—
Asylum-seekersHosting19932000202533/33—
Asylum-seekersOriginating19942000202532/32—
Stateless personsHosting20042007202522/22—
Others of concernHosting19931998202533/33—
Others of concernOriginating19941998202532/32—
Returned refugeesHosting19931996202533/33—
Returned refugeesOriginating19942000202532/32—
Other people in need of international protectionHosting2025202520251/1—

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).