UNHCR · Conflict & Displacement
Other people in need of international protection, by country of origin
People from the country who need international protection elsewhere but are not reported as refugees or asylum-seekers.
- Coverage
- 2 of 238 countries
- Latest data
- 2025
- Series
- 2
- Unit
- people
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Retrieved
- 2026-11-05
- Indicator
- unhcr-other-in-need-by-origin
- Interva ID
- unhcr-other-in-need-by-origin
Recency
current
data to 2025; catalog to 2025
Provenance
1 step
as the publisher declares it
Versions
1
catalog snapshots
Citation
BibTeX + CSL
versioned permalink
Quality profile
This profile describes what Interva can measure in the data. It does not claim the dataset is accurate, complete, or suitable for a particular use.
Recency
100%Latest observation is 2025; the catalog broadly reports to 2025, so this data is 0 year(s) behind (current).
Method: Compares the dataset's latest non-projected period with the year most datasets in the catalog end in. Up to 2 years behind is current — annual data is routinely published a year or two late — and more than 5 is stale. Measured from the data, not from when Interva last crawled it.
Temporal completeness
100%0 of 2 series skip at least one year inside their own span; the median series reports 100% of its years.
Method: Per series, years present divided by years from its first to its last observation; the median across series is reported. Annual periods are assumed, which holds for every series in the catalog today.
Geographic coverage
MeasuredCovers 2 of the 238 countries in the catalog.
Method: Counts distinct geographies with at least one observation. Not scored: a regional dataset covering its region completely is not deficient for omitting the rest of the world.
History depth
MeasuredThe median series has 1 observations; the earliest begins in 2018.
Method: Counts non-projected observations per series. Not scored: a long history is useful for trend work and irrelevant for a cross-section.
Revisions
MeasuredNo observation has been restated in any vintage Interva has recorded.
Method: Counts values the publisher changed between Interva's publishes. Not scored: revising estimates is ordinary and often a sign of care, and the count is here so a reader citing a figure knows whether it moves.
Schema conformity
Not assessedNo declared schema or validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.
Validity
Not assessedNo field-level validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.
Consistency
Not assessedCross-series consistency rules are not defined yet. The obvious first one — whether two publishers measuring one concept agree within a stated tolerance — is a candidate.
2 scored from the data, 3 described without a score, 3 not assessed. Pipeline integrity: all 5 checks pass. Assessed 2026-11-07.
By country
Other people in need of international protection, by country of origin for each of the 2 countries it covers, with the full history.
- Afghanistan 2025–2025
- Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of 2018–2025
Latest observations
| Country | Period | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | 2025 | 1.03M | people |
| Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | 2025 | 6.04M | people |
| Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | 2024 | 5.88M | people |
| Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | 2023 | 5.76M | people |
| Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | 2022 | 5.22M | people |
| Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | 2021 | 4.41M | people |
| Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | 2020 | 3.86M | people |
| Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | 2019 | 3.58M | people |
| Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | 2018 | 2.59M | people |
Provenance
Who produced these figures, as UNHCR declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.
Produced by
UN High Commissioner for Refugees
UNHCR population statistics — oip by country of origin; government and UNHCR figures, not distinguished per figure
declared by unhcr in population
Versions
A vintage is a dated publish of the catalog. The current entry is a catalog snapshot; checksums are not recorded yet and are shown as such.
- CurrentCurrent catalog snapshotchecksum not recorded
Related datasets
Refugees under UNHCR's mandate, by country of asylum
UNHCR · 186 series · same topic · same publisher
Asylum-seekers, by country of asylum
UNHCR · 182 series · same topic · same publisher
Internally displaced people of concern to UNHCR
UNHCR · 63 series · same topic · same publisher
Stateless people, by country of residence
UNHCR · 106 series · same topic · same publisher
Other people in need of international protection, by country of asylum
UNHCR · 31 series · same topic · same publisher
Refugees under UNHCR's mandate, by country of origin
UNHCR · 206 series · same topic · same publisher
Asylum-seekers, by country of origin
UNHCR · 214 series · same topic · same publisher
Deaths in state-based armed conflict
UCDP · 127 series · same topic
Citation
Version: catalog snapshot 2026-11-05. The record labels this as a catalog snapshot because immutable dataset releases are not stored yet.
UNHCR (2026). Other people in need of international protection, by country of origin. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/unhcr-other-in-need-by-origin (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-05.
@misc{interva-unhcr-other-in-need-by-origin,
title = {Other people in need of international protection, by country of origin},
author = {UNHCR},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://interva.co/dataset/unhcr-other-in-need-by-origin}},
note = {Interva dataset unhcr-other-in-need-by-origin; catalog snapshot 2026-11-05},
urldate = {2026-11-07}
}DOI: not assigned (not assigned). The permalink is versioned by catalog snapshot; a stable dataset DOI is a later step.
API access
Every fact on this page is available from the API.
curl https://interva-api.nq5kq4f69b5zj.eu-west-3.cs.amazonlightsail.com/datasets/unhcr-other-in-need-by-origincurl -o unhcr-other-in-need-by-origin.csv https://interva-api.nq5kq4f69b5zj.eu-west-3.cs.amazonlightsail.com/datasets/unhcr-other-in-need-by-origin/downloadcurl "https://interva-api.nq5kq4f69b5zj.eu-west-3.cs.amazonlightsail.com/datasets/unhcr-other-in-need-by-origin/citation?accessed=YYYY-MM-DD"curl https://interva-api.nq5kq4f69b5zj.eu-west-3.cs.amazonlightsail.com/datasets/unhcr-other-in-need-by-origin/qualityFull schema: https://interva-api.nq5kq4f69b5zj.eu-west-3.cs.amazonlightsail.com/docs
Open in the terminal to chart this series, compare it against other publishers, or export it with its provenance.