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India: Refugees under UNHCR's mandate, by country of origin

42,610people · 2025+331.2% since 2015

Refugees from the country, wherever they now live, under UNHCR's mandate. Annual figures for India from 1988 to 2025.

19882025

Every year

YearValue (people)Note
202542,610
202439,303
202325,319
202220,828
202114,230
202012,398
201911,787
20189,586
20177,926
20167,288
20159,882
201410,431
201311,032
201214,245
201116,226
201017,766
200919,496
200819,551
200720,455
200617,797
200516,275
200413,335
200313,703
200214,349
200111,560
200011,397
19999,846
19989,663
19978,918
19967,546
19955,011
19943,266
19931,491
19921,021
1991406
1990197
198913
198810

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). Refugees under UNHCR's mandate, by country of origin. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/unhcr-refugees-by-origin (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-05.

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