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India: Asylum-seekers, by country of origin

181,121people · 2025+628.2% since 2015

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

20002025

Every year

YearValue (people)Note
2025181,121
2024202,933
2023142,607
2022100,389
202178,360
202069,959
201965,965
201851,802
201740,356
201627,939
201524,874
201416,698
201312,471
20126,654
20114,347
20103,856
20094,709
20086,867
20077,077
20066,745
200512,169
200411,708
200311,456
200211,060
20019,748
20009,786

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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