Chad rose from 15th to 6th among refugee hosts
Refugees and others in need of international protection, by host country, end-2025 vs end-2019, UNHCR.
- 1. The world has already passed peak child
- 2. Japan's median age is more than three times Niger's
- 3. South Korea now has a quarter of its 1971 births
- 4. China's population is projected to more than halve by 2100
- 5. Japan now has over 100,000 centenarians, up from 153
- 6. Japan has 9 million empty homes: one in seven
- 7. One in ten in Japan will be foreign by 2070
- 8. Japan's foreign residents have doubled since 2012, passing 4 million
- 9. Jakarta, not Tokyo, is the world's largest city
- 10. Two in three newly licensed UK doctors qualified abroad
- 11. Iran dropped from top refugee host to fifth in 2025
- 12. More Christians live in sub-Saharan Africa than anywhere else
- 13. Two in three people live where fertility is below replacement
- 14. Japan's births fell below half their 1899 level
- 15. Brazil now has more people over 65 than Germany
- 16. Egypt has more asylum seekers than Germany, Spain and Italy
- 17. 34 countries and territories are past their population peak
- 18. Chile's fertility rate fell below Italy's and Japan's
- 19. Nigeria now has almost 25 million more people than Brazil
- 20. Thailand's births have fallen below its deaths
- 21. Women hold at least half the seats in seven parliaments
- 22. Child marriage in South Asia has nearly halved since 2005
- 23. Six in ten child deaths now happen in sub-Saharan Africa
- 24. Argentina's teen birth rate fell 60% in ten years
- 25. Chad rose from 15th to 6th among refugee hosts
- 26. Sri Lanka's population has shrunk three years in a row
- 27. Bangladesh's births per woman have fallen by two-thirds since 1970
- 28. Türkiye overtook France in hosting foreign students
People Chad hosted at end-2025, more than triple its 0.44m in 2019, lifting it from 15th to 6th among the world's hosts.
Pakistan's count at end-2025, down from 1.56m a year earlier. Third in 2019, it fell behind Chad in 2025.
Of Chad's refugees are Sudanese, about 1.3 million, UNHCR says: one of the world's least developed countries now shelters a neighbour's war.
the numbers & method
| End-2025 (m) | 2019 (grey bar) (m) | |
|---|---|---|
| Colombia | 2.81 | 1.77 |
| Germany | 2.66 | 1.15 |
| Türkiye | 2.39 | 3.58 |
| Uganda | 1.94 | 1.36 |
| Iran | 1.65 | 0.98 |
| Chad | 1.50 | 0.44 |
| Pakistan | 1.30 | 1.42 |
| Bangladesh | 1.18 | 0.85 |
| Peru | 1.10 | 0.38 |
| Ethiopia | 1.01 | 0.73 |
Claim types Fact · Interpretation
UNHCR Refugee Data Finder, read from the UNHCR population API (api.unhcr.org/population/v1/population/?coa_all=true), end-year figures; end-2025 figures are those of the Global Trends Report 2025 (published June 2026). Measure = refugees under UNHCR's mandate plus other people in need of international protection (UNHCR's headline host measure); Palestine refugees under UNRWA are not included. End-2025 (and end-2019): Colombia 2,812,242 (1,771,871); Germany 2,655,191 (1,146,682); Türkiye 2,390,414 (3,579,531); Uganda 1,936,719 (1,359,458); Iran 1,650,014 (979,435); Chad 1,502,263 (442,670); Pakistan 1,299,596 (1,419,596); Bangladesh 1,178,038 (854,779); Peru 1,104,802 (380,714); Ethiopia 1,010,466 (733,123). Chad's rank by year: 15th (2019), 16th (2022), 8th (2023), 7th (2024), 6th (2025); Chad 1,278,866 vs Pakistan 1,560,480 at end-2024, so the order flipped in 2025. On refugees alone (without other people in need of protection) Chad (1,502,263) is also ahead of Pakistan (1,159,038). Ranks and the 'more than triple' ratio (3.4×) are progrss calculations. UNHCR's Global Trends Report 2025 says nine in ten of Chad's refugees are Sudanese (1.3 million). In 2025 UNHCR began reporting part of Pakistan's (140,558) and Iran's (879,500) totals as other people in need of international protection, a category that was zero for both before. Pakistan's fall coincides with returns and deportations of Afghans: both readings are interpretation. Africa or South Asia among the 2025 top ten: Uganda, Chad, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Ethiopia (Chad is on the UN list of Least Developed Countries). Licence: UNHCR data, CC BY 4.0.
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