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Unhcr

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UNHCR Refugee Population Statistics. License: CC BY 4.0 (UN Refugee Agency open data) Source: https://api.unhcr.org/population/v1/ No API key required. Coverage: * Refugees, asylum seekers, IDPs, stateless persons, returned refugees * Bilateral (country-of-origin × country-of-asylum) flows *…

Metadata only. This source’s license does not permit redistribution, so we catalog its metadata but do not re-serve the data. Use the provider link to obtain it under the original terms.

Coverage

Series catalogued
18,367
Temporal coverage
1951-12-31 – 2025-12-31

Licensing & provenance

License
License under review
Redistribution
Not permitted (metadata only)
Commercial use
Restricted / no
Modification
Permitted

How to cite

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Retrieved from https://www.unhcr.org/refugee-statistics. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Processing: Retrieved from the official source, normalized to a long {series_key, obs_date, value} schema (period-start dates), de-duplicated, and stored as zstd Parquet. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Access & mirrors

Download
Select & download unhcr series as CSV →
API
Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing
https://econdatalibrary.com/unhcr.html
Update cadence
annual
Update strategy
extend by date
Storage layout
single parquet: data/clean_full/unhcr/unhcr.parquet (~0.8 MB). Schema: series_key (string), obs_date date32 (Dec 31), value float64. Keys: {endpoint}:{field}:{coo_iso}:{coa_iso} (e.g. population:refugees:SYR:DEU). Zero/empty values dropped.

Full description

UNHCR Refugee Population Statistics. License: CC BY 4.0 (UN Refugee Agency open data) Source: https://api.unhcr.org/population/v1/ No API key required. Coverage: * Refugees, asylum seekers, IDPs, stateless persons, returned refugees * Bilateral (country-of-origin × country-of-asylum) flows * 1951–present, updated annually Strategy: * Iterate over all available years * For each year: paginate through population/idmc/solutions endpoints * Long format: series_key = {indicator}:{coo_iso}:{coa_iso} Run: python jobs/ingest_unhcr.py

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)
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  "publisher": {
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  ],
  "usageInfo": "Metadata-only catalog entry. This source's license does not permit redistribution, so the data itself is not served here; use the provider link to obtain the data under its terms."
}
Croissant (ML-ready, schema.org JSON-LD)
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  "citation": "United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Retrieved from https://www.unhcr.org/refugee-statistics. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.",
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}
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