Resettled refugees who arrived in Canada as part of the Government of Canada's Refugee and Humanitarian Resettlement Program. Datasets include resettled refugees who have received settlement services. Please note that in these datasets, the figures have been suppressed or rounded to prevent the identification of individuals when the datasets are compiled and compared with other publicly available statistics. Values between 0 and 5 are shown as “--“ and all other values are rounded to the nearest multiple of 5. This may result to the sum of the figures not equating to the totals indicated. Please note that the datasets will not be updated.

This statistic displays the number of refugee resettlement places that member states of the European Union (EU) pledged under the "******" scheme. Out of 28 member states, Germany and France, each declared ****** resettlement places. Poland, Hungary, and several other countries did not pledge any commitments. The EU "******" scheme, launched by the European Commission in September 2017, was a resettlement plan for ****** persons in need of protection.

Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) Overseas Refugee Arrival Data FY 2000 sorted by country of origin and state of initial resettlement in the United States.

Context:

The mass movement of uprooted people is a highly charged geopolitical issue. This data, gathered by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), covers movement of displaced persons (asylum seekers, refugees, internally displaced persons (IDP), stateless). Also included are destination country responses to asylum petitions.

Content:

This dataset includes 6 csv files covering:

• Asylum monthly applications opened (asylum_seekers_monthly.csv)
• Yearly progress through the refugee system (asylum_seekers.csv)
• Refugee demographics (demographics.csv)
• Yearly time series data on UNHCR’s populations of concern (time_series.csv)
• Yearly population statistics on refugees by residence and destination (persons_of_concern.csv)
• Yearly data on resettlement arrivals, with or without UNHCR assistance (resettlement.csv)

Acknowledgements:

This dataset was gathered from UNHCR. Photo by Ali Tareq.

Inspiration:

What are the most frequent destination countries for refugees? How has refugee flow changed? Any trends that could predict future refugee patterns?

Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) Overseas Refugee Arrival Data FY 2010 sorted by country of origin and state of initial resettlement in the United States

In 2024, Turkey was the country that hosted the highest number of Syrian refugees, amounting up to 2.9 million refugees. Lebanon was second, hosting 755,426 Syrian refugees. The data refers to the total number of Syrian refugees in a given country, not considering the date of their application for asylum or the date of their flight.

Oversees refugee arrival data for 2012-2015 fiscal years. Counts of served peoples' country of origin (columns) and state of resettlement (rows) for each fiscal year.

Units of Response: Refugee

Type of Data: Administrative

Tribal Data: No

Periodicity: Annual

Demographic Indicators: Unavailable

SORN: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2015/04/02/2015-07440/privacy-act-of-1974-system-of-records-notice

Data Use Agreement: Unavailable

Data Use Agreement Location: Not Applicable

Granularity: State

Spatial: United States

Geocoding: State

During the fiscal year of 2024, 100,034 refugees were admitted to the United States. This is a significant increase from the fiscal year of 2023, when 60,014 refugees were admitted into the United States.

Overview

At the end of the 2018 fiscal year, the U.S. had resettled 22,491 refugees -- a small fraction of the number of people who had entered in prior years. This is the smallest annual number of refugees since Congress passed a law in 1980 creating the modern resettlement system.

It's also well below the cap of 45,000 set by the administration for 2018, and less than thirty percent of the number granted entry in the final year of Barack Obama’s presidency. It's also significantly below the cap for 2019 announced by President Trump's administration, which is 30,000.

The Associated Press is updating its data on refugees through fiscal year 2018, which ended Sept. 30, to help reporters continue coverage of this story. Previous Associated Press data on refugees can be found here.

Data obtained from the State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration show the mix of refugees also has changed substantially:

• The numbers of Iraqi, Somali and Syrian refugees -- who made up more than a third of all resettlements in the U.S. in the prior five years -- have almost entirely disappeared. Refugees from those three countries comprise about two percent of the 2018 resettlements.
• In 2018, Christians have made up more than sixty percent of the refugee population, while the share of Muslims has dropped from roughly 45 percent of refugees in fiscal year 2016 to about 15 percent. (This data is not available at the city or state level.)
• Of the states that usually average at least 100 resettlements, Maine, Louisiana, Michigan, Florida, California, Oklahoma and Texas have seen the largest percentage decreases in refugees. All have had their refugee caseloads drop more than 75% when comparing 2018 to the average over the previous five years (2013-2017).

The past fiscal year marks a dramatic change in the refugee program, with only a fraction as many people entering. That affects refugees currently in the U.S., who may be waiting on relatives to arrive. It affects refugees in other countries, hoping to get to the United States for safety or other reasons. And it affects the organizations that work to house and resettle these refugees, who only a few years ago were dealing with record numbers of people. Several agencies have already closed their doors; others have laid off workers and cut back their programs.

Because there is wide geographic variations on resettlement depending on refugees' country of origin, some U.S. cities have been more affected by this than others. For instance, in past years, Iraqis have resettled most often in San Diego, Calif., or Houston. Now, with only a handful of Iraqis being admitted in 2018, those cities have seen some of the biggest drop-offs in resettlement numbers.

About This Data

Datasheets include:

• Annual_refugee_data: This provides the rawest form of the data from Oct. 1, 2008 – Sept. 30, 2018, where each record is a combination of fiscal year, city for refugee arrivals to a specific city and state and from a specific origin. Also provides annual totals for the state.
• City_refugees: This provides data grouped by city for refugee arrivals to a specific city and state and from a specific origin, showing totals for each year next to each other in different columns, so you can quickly see trends over time. Data is from Oct. 1, 2008 – Sept. 30, 2018, grouped by fiscal year. It also compares 2018 numbers to a five-year average from 2013-2017.
• City_refugees_and_foreign_born_proportions: This provides the data in City_refugees along with data that gives context to the origins of the foreign born populations living in each city. There are regional columns, sub-regional columns and a column specific to the origin listed in the refugee data. Data is from the American Community Survey 5-year 2013-2017 Table B05006: PLACE OF BIRTH FOR THE FOREIGN-BORN POPULATION. ### Caveats According to the State Department: "This data tracks the movement of refugees from various countries around the world to the U.S. for resettlement under the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program." The data does not include other types of immigration or visits to the U.S.

The data tracks the refugees' stated destination in the United States. In many cases, this is where the refugees first lived, although many may have since moved.

Be aware that some cities with particularly high totals may be the locations of refugee resettlement programs -- for instance, Glendale, Calif., is home to both Catholic Charities of Los Angeles and the International Rescue Committee of Los Angeles, which work at resettling refugees.

About Refugee Resettlement

The data for refugees from other countries - or for any particular timeframe since 2002 - can be accessed through the State Department's Refugee Processing Center's site by clicking on "Arrivals by Destination and Nationality."

The Refugee Processing Center used to publish a state-by-state list of affiliate refugee organizations -- the groups that help refugees settle in the U.S. That list was last updated in January 2017, so it may now be out of date. It can be found here.

For general information about the U.S. refugee resettlement program, see this State Department description. For more detailed information about the program and proposed 2018 caps and changes, see the FY 2018 Report to Congress.

Queries

The Associated Press has set up a number of pre-written queries to help you filter this data and find local stories. Queries can be accessed by clicking on their names in the upper right hand bar.

• Find Cities Impacted - Most Change -- Use this query to see the cities that have seen the largest drop-offs in refugee resettlements. Creates a five-year average of how many refugees of a certain origin have come in the past, and then measures 2018 by that. Be wary of small raw numbers when considering the percentages!
• Total Refugees for Each City in Your State -- Use this query to get the number of total refugees who've resettled in your state's cities by year.
• Total Refugees in Your State -- Use this query to get the number of total refugees who've resettled in your state by year.
• Changes in Origin over Time -- Use this query to track how many refugees are coming from each origin by year. The initial query provides national numbers, but can be filtered for state or even for city.
• Extract Raw Data for Your State -- Use this query to type in your state name to extract and download just the data in your state. This is the raw data from the State Department, so it may be slightly more difficult to see changes over time. ###### Contact AP Data Journalist Michelle Minkoff with questions, mminkoff@ap.org

National reference metadata, produced by countries and released by Eurostat, are available in the European reference metadata for asylum applications. Applications (migr_asyapp)

Data series on decisions on asylum applications and resettlement contain statistical information based on Article 4 of the Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 with reference to:

• Persons covered by first instance decisions rejecting applications for international protection by age, sex, citizenship and status of minors;
• Persons covered by first instance decisions granting, revoking, ending or refusing to renew refugee status by age, sex, citizenship and status of minors;
• Persons covered by first instance decisions granting, revoking, ending or refusing to renew subsidiary protection status by age, sex, citizenship and status of minors;
• Persons covered by first instance decisions granting or withdrawing temporary protection by age, sex, citizenship and status of minors;
• Persons covered by other first instance decisions granting or withdrawing authorisation to stay for humanitarian reasons by age, sex, citizenship and status of minors;
• Persons covered by final decisions rejecting applications for international protection by age, sex, citizenship and status of minors;
• Persons covered by final decisions granting, revoking, ending or refusing to renew refugee status by age, sex, citizenship and status of minors;
• Persons covered by final decisions granting, revoking, ending or refusing to renew subsidiary protection status by age, sex, citizenship and status of minors;
• Persons covered by final decisions granting or withdrawing temporary protection by age, sex, citizenship and status of minors;
• Persons covered by other final decisions, taken in appeal or review, granting or withdrawing authorisations to stay for humanitarian reasons by age, sex, citizenship and status of minors;
• Persons who have been granted an authorisation to reside in a Member State within the framework of a national or Community resettlement scheme by age, sex, citizenship, status of minors, country of previous residence and type of decision.

Data are presented by country and aggregation for the European Union.

Data are rounded to the nearest 5.

This research investigates relationship between social interactions and self-reported mental and physical health of resettled refugees. Social relationships and interactions consist of different layers extending from individual personal relations to social networking activities to collective engagement. Using data from a public opinion survey of recently resettled Bhutanese and Rohingya refugees in Michigan (N=352), we find that along with their socioeconomic situations, such as employment, social integration is an important determinant of mental and physical health. Resettled refugees tend to report better health if they are more socially engaged. This study contributes to the literature on refugee resettlement and integration through a quantitative analysis of a variety of measures of social interactions and their relationship to resettled refugee health. The findings have potentially important country- and world-wide policy implications for developing cost-effective health initiatives for resettled refugees.

This statistic displays the share of U.S. respondents who agree that the country has al responsibility to accept Syrian refugees from ************ to **********, by political party affiliation. As of **********, about ** percent of respondents identifying as Republicans stated that United States has a responsibility to accept refugees from Syria.

One week after President Donald Trump signed a controversial executive order to reduce the influx of refugees to the United States, we conducted a survey experiment to understand American citizens’ attitudes toward refugee resettlement. Specifically, we evaluated whether citizens consider the geographic context of the resettlement program (that is, local versus national) and the degree to which they are swayed by media frames that increasingly associate refugees with terrorist threats. Our findings highlight a collective action problem: Participants are consistently less supportive of resettlement within their own communities than resettlement elsewhere in the country. This pattern holds across all measured demographic, political, and geographic subsamples within our data. Furthermore, our results demonstrate that threatening media frames significantly reduce support for both national and local resettlement. Conversely, media frames rebutting the threat posed by refugees have no significant effect. Finally, the results indicate that participants in refugee-dense counties are less responsive to threatening frames, suggesting that proximity to previously settled refugees may reduce the impact of perceived security threats.

Abstract (en): Since the 1980s, the Office of Refugee Resettlement1 has conducted the Annual Survey of Refugees (ASR), which collects information on refugees during their first five years after arrival in the U.S. The ASR is the only scientifically-collected source of national data on refugees’ progress toward self-sufficiency and integration. ORR uses the ASR results alongside other information sources to fulfill its Congressionally-mandated reporting following the Refugee Act of 1980. Historically, the microdata from these surveys have generally been unavailable to researchers.

In the Spring of 2017 ORR completed its 50th Annual Survey of Refugees (ASR). The data from the ASR offer a window into respondents’ first five years in the United States and shows the progress that refugee families made towards learning English, participating in the workforce, and establishing permanent residence. This public use data deposit is only for the 2016 ASR with future years likely to be added to the ICPSR archive..

[1] The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) at the Administration for Children and Families in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) serves refugees and other humanitarian entrants, including asylees, Cuban and Haitian entrants, Special Immigrant Visa holders, Amerasians, victims of human trafficking, and unaccompanied children. By providing these arrived populations with critical resources, ORR promotes their economic and social well-being. The Annual Survey of Refugees focuses solely on those refugees who have come to the U.S. in the past five fiscal years. Household- and person-level analytic weights were developed for the 2016 ASR to allow for valid statistical estimates of the target refugee population. Both sets of weights are comprised of two components – a base weight reflecting the selection probability and an adjustment that corrects for differential nonresponse and aligns the population to known totals from the sampling frame (RADS universe file). Response Rates: An overall response rate of 24 percent was achieved. The response rate was driven by the ability to locate and speak to (1500+468)/6176 = 32 percent of the sample, meaning that two thirds of the sample could either not be located, or (if located) could

not be successfully contacted.

The overall response rates decreased with time since arrival to the U.S., varying from 20 percent for FY 2011-2012 refugees to 25 percent for FY 2013-2014 refugees and a high of 31 percent for FY 2015 refugees. Refugees aged 16 years old or over at the time of interview who arrived in the U.S. during FY 2011-2015 Smallest Geographic Unit: Census region originally resettled in and the country of birth The 2016 ASR employed a stratified probability sample design of refugees. The first stage of selection was the household (PA), and the second stage was the selection of persons within households.
telephone interview~~

Data collated by UNHCR, containing information about forcibly displaced populations and stateless persons, spanning across more than 70 years of statistical activities. The data includes the countries / territories of asylum and origin. Specific resources are available for end-year population totals, demographics, asylum applications, decisions, and solutions availed by refugees and IDPs (resettlement, naturalisation or returns).

Data collated by UNHCR, containing information about forcibly displaced populations and stateless persons, spanning across more than 70 years of statistical activities. The data includes the countries / territories of asylum and origin. Specific resources are available for end-year population totals, demographics, asylum applications, decisions, and solutions availed by refugees and IDPs (resettlement, naturalisation or returns).

National reference metadata, produced by countries and released by Eurostat, are available in the European reference metadata for asylum applications. Applications (migr_asyapp)

Data series on decisions on asylum applications and resettlement contain statistical information based on Article 4 of the Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 with reference to:

• Persons covered by first instance decisions rejecting applications for international protection by age, sex, citizenship and status of minors;
• Persons covered by first instance decisions granting, revoking, ending or refusing to renew refugee status by age, sex, citizenship and status of minors;
• Persons covered by first instance decisions granting, revoking, ending or refusing to renew subsidiary protection status by age, sex, citizenship and status of minors;
• Persons covered by first instance decisions granting or withdrawing temporary protection by age, sex, citizenship and status of minors;
• Persons covered by other first instance decisions granting or withdrawing authorisation to stay for humanitarian reasons by age, sex, citizenship and status of minors;
• Persons covered by final decisions rejecting applications for international protection by age, sex, citizenship and status of minors;
• Persons covered by final decisions granting, revoking, ending or refusing to renew refugee status by age, sex, citizenship and status of minors;
• Persons covered by final decisions granting, revoking, ending or refusing to renew subsidiary protection status by age, sex, citizenship and status of minors;
• Persons covered by final decisions granting or withdrawing temporary protection by age, sex, citizenship and status of minors;
• Persons covered by other final decisions, taken in appeal or review, granting or withdrawing authorisations to stay for humanitarian reasons by age, sex, citizenship and status of minors;
• Persons who have been granted an authorisation to reside in a Member State within the framework of a national or Community resettlement scheme by age, sex, citizenship, status of minors, country of previous residence and type of decision.

Data are presented by country and aggregation for the European Union.

Data are rounded to the nearest 5.

Data collated by UNHCR, containing information about forcibly displaced populations and stateless persons, spanning across more than 70 years of statistical activities. The data includes the countries / territories of asylum and origin. Specific resources are available for end-year population totals, demographics, asylum applications, decisions, and solutions availed by refugees and IDPs (resettlement, naturalisation or returns).

National reference metadata, produced by countries and released by Eurostat, are available in the European reference metadata for asylum applications. Applications (migr_asyapp)

Data series on decisions on asylum applications and resettlement contain statistical information based on Article 4 of the Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 with reference to:

• Persons covered by first instance decisions rejecting applications for international protection by age, sex, citizenship and status of minors;
• Persons covered by first instance decisions granting, revoking, ending or refusing to renew refugee status by age, sex, citizenship and status of minors;
• Persons covered by first instance decisions granting, revoking, ending or refusing to renew subsidiary protection status by age, sex, citizenship and status of minors;
• Persons covered by first instance decisions granting or withdrawing temporary protection by age, sex, citizenship and status of minors;
• Persons covered by other first instance decisions granting or withdrawing authorisation to stay for humanitarian reasons by age, sex, citizenship and status of minors;
• Persons covered by final decisions rejecting applications for international protection by age, sex, citizenship and status of minors;
• Persons covered by final decisions granting, revoking, ending or refusing to renew refugee status by age, sex, citizenship and status of minors;
• Persons covered by final decisions granting, revoking, ending or refusing to renew subsidiary protection status by age, sex, citizenship and status of minors;
• Persons covered by final decisions granting or withdrawing temporary protection by age, sex, citizenship and status of minors;
• Persons covered by other final decisions, taken in appeal or review, granting or withdrawing authorisations to stay for humanitarian reasons by age, sex, citizenship and status of minors;
• Persons who have been granted an authorisation to reside in a Member State within the framework of a national or Community resettlement scheme by age, sex, citizenship, status of minors, country of previous residence and type of decision.

Data are presented by country and aggregation for the European Union.

Data are rounded to the nearest 5.