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Türkiye
Türkiye — forced displacement statistics — 1951–2025.
27.3 refugees per 1,000 residents — #15 worldwide#2 host country for refugees (2025)Most refugees from here are now in Germany
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 · REF · Now in — Refugee figure for Syrians in Turkey is a Government estimate.
- All · REF · Now in — Refers to Government estimates.
- All · REF · Now in — Refugee figure for Syrians in Turkey was a Government estimate.
- All · ASY · Now in — Data include asylum-seekers registered with UNHCR as well as asylum-seekers who have been pre-registered but who are pending official registration with UNHCR.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Iran | 1,357 | 3,133 |
| Iraq | 642 | 1,936 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 634 | 0 |
| Serbia | 286 | 0 |
| Afghanistan | 44 | 46 |
| Palestine | 60 | 8 |
| Unknown origin | 43 | 0 |
| China | 11 | 10 |
| Uzbekistan | 8 | 10 |
| Somalia | 11 | 5 |
Top host countries
Top host countries (2000)
| Country | Refugees | Asylum-seekers |
|---|---|---|
| Iraq | 12,640 | 0 |
| France | 9,896 | 0 |
| Switzerland | 6,229 | 1,130 |
| United Kingdom | 7,115 | 0 |
| Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 1,962 | 2,569 |
| Germany | 0 | 3,871 |
| Greece | 2,327 | 350 |
| Sweden | 1,897 | 0 |
| Belgium | 1,732 | 0 |
| Canada | 765 | 731 |
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 | 1951 | 1951 | 2025 | 75/75 | — |
| Refugees | Originating | 1972 | 1972 | 2025 | 48/54 | 4 yr |
| Asylum-seekers | Hosting | 1951 | 2000 | 2025 | 75/75 | — |
| Asylum-seekers | Originating | 1972 | 2000 | 2025 | 48/54 | 4 yr |
| Stateless persons | Hosting | 2004 | 2008 | 2025 | 22/22 | — |
| Others of concern | Hosting | 1951 | 2005 | 2025 | 75/75 | — |
| Others of concern | Originating | 1972 | 2013 | 2025 | 48/54 | 4 yr |
| Returned refugees | Hosting | 1951 | 1989 | 2025 | 75/75 | — |
| Returned refugees | Originating | 1972 | 1982 | 2025 | 48/54 | 4 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).