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Afghanistan: Asylum-seekers, by country of origin

270,007people · 2025+4.3% since 2015

People from the country whose claim for asylum elsewhere has not yet been decided. Annual figures for Afghanistan from 2000 to 2025.

20002025

Every year

YearValue (people)Note
2025270,007
2024384,732
2023296,033
2022294,493
2021262,860
2020238,791
2019251,047
2018310,107
2017333,986
2016369,072
2015258,862
201485,407
201375,284
201262,304
201139,199
201037,101
200930,406
200823,177
200716,077
200614,959
200514,023
200416,983
200326,308
200226,687
200130,782
200040,290

Source

Published by UNHCR, produced by UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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UNHCR (2026). Asylum-seekers, by country of origin. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/unhcr-asylum-seekers-by-origin (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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