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Yemen
Yemen — forced displacement statistics — 1951–2025.
Hosting fell to 18% of ten years agoMost refugees from here are now in SomaliaLargest origin of refugees hosted here: Somalia
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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Somalia | 56,524 | 0 |
| Eritrea | 2,566 | 81 |
| Ethiopia | 1,203 | 306 |
| Sudan | 91 | 556 |
| Iraq | 85 | 341 |
| Palestine | 45 | 80 |
| Viet Nam | 9 | 12 |
| Egypt | 0 | 14 |
| Syria | 10 | 0 |
| Jordan | 0 | 6 |
Top host countries
Top host countries (2000)
| Country | Refugees | Asylum-seekers |
|---|---|---|
| Syria | 748 | 168 |
| Egypt | 683 | 22 |
| United States | 263 | 210 |
| Canada | 168 | 95 |
| Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 68 | 130 |
| Switzerland | 22 | 122 |
| Ethiopia | 61 | 17 |
| Germany | 0 | 35 |
| Denmark | 23 | 0 |
| United Arab Emirates | 0 | 23 |
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 | 1977 | 1977 | 2025 | 49/49 | — |
| Refugees | Originating | 1978 | 1978 | 2025 | 43/48 | 5 yr |
| Asylum-seekers | Hosting | 1977 | 2000 | 2025 | 49/49 | — |
| Asylum-seekers | Originating | 1978 | 2000 | 2025 | 43/48 | 5 yr |
| Internally displaced (IDPs) | Hosting | 1977 | 2007 | 2025 | 49/49 | — |
| Internally displaced (IDPs) | Originating | 1978 | 2007 | 2025 | 43/48 | 5 yr |
| Others of concern | Hosting | 1977 | 1997 | 2025 | 49/49 | — |
| Others of concern | Originating | 1978 | 2013 | 2025 | 43/48 | 5 yr |
| Returned refugees | Hosting | 1977 | 1985 | 2025 | 49/49 | — |
| Returned refugees | Originating | 1978 | 1996 | 2025 | 43/48 | 5 yr |
| Returned IDPs | Hosting | 1977 | 2010 | 2025 | 49/49 | — |
| Returned IDPs | Originating | 1978 | 2010 | 2025 | 43/48 | 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).