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Iraq: Asylum-seekers, by country of origin

96,887people · 2025-59.1% since 2015

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

20002025

Every year

YearValue (people)Note
202596,887
2024151,623
2023192,202
2022228,961
2021254,454
2020272,567
2019302,731
2018256,716
2017272,627
2016278,367
2015237,168
2014103,724
201343,145
201224,239
201124,485
201029,939
200922,372
200825,654
200727,667
200647,294
200534,438
200430,619
200331,591
200229,641
200134,826
200040,630

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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