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China: Asylum-seekers, by country of origin

99,716people · 2025+72.8% since 2015

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

20002025

Every year

YearValue (people)Note
202599,716
2024180,960
2023137,143
2022116,338
2021118,476
2020108,071
2019104,248
201894,351
201789,508
201672,165
201557,693
201447,335
201324,799
201215,362
201111,375
20107,732
200918,325
200819,615
200715,526
200617,278
200519,378
200419,725
200321,257
200225,224
200119,783
200017,178

Source

Published by UNHCR, produced by UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-05.

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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 2026-11-05.

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