Each line runs from a country people fled to a country that took them in, and thicker means more people. Drag the year, pick an origin, or tap any country for its exact numbers, in and out.
Data: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder (refugees + asylum-seekers, by country of origin and asylum). Showing the largest corridors for the selected year.
About this data & its limits
These numbers count people under UNHCR's mandate. Countries that never signed the 1951 Refugee Convention manage refugees through their own governments instead, so UNHCR doesn't fully count them. India is the clearest example: its long-standing Sri Lankan Tamil and Tibetan communities, and most Rohingya it hosts, are handled by the Indian government and barely show up here, so India looks far smaller as a host than it really is. Read the map as "refugees the UN tracks," not "every displaced person on Earth."
Palestinians are the largest gap. Roughly 5.9 million Palestinian refugees are registered under UNRWA, a separate UN agency, and are not part of UNHCR's figures, so one of the world's biggest and longest-running displaced populations does not appear on this map at all.
The map draws the largest origin-to-asylum corridors for the chosen year; smaller flows appear when you tap a specific country.