Afghanistan vs Yemen: Forcibly displaced people

Afghanistan
4.38 million
in 2025
Yemen
4.86 million
in 2025
Afghanistan rank
6th
Yemen rank
5th

Forcibly displaced people over time

  • Afghanistan
  • Yemen
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How they compare

Yemen currently reports 4.86 million against 4.38 million in Afghanistan, a difference of 483,500.

That makes Yemen's figure about 1.1 times Afghanistan's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 16 shared years of data; in 2010 it was Yemen ahead.

Globally, Afghanistan ranks 6th and Yemen ranks 5th of 180 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Forcibly displaced people
Source
Refugee Population Statistics Database, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
227 places, 3,518 data points, 2010–2025
Last refreshed

Forcibly displaced people are represented by the sum of (1) refugees (and people in a refugee-like situation) under the mandate of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), (2) refugees under the mandate of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), (3) asylum-seekers, (4) other people in need of international protection, and (5) internally displaced people (IDPs). Situations in which people are reported in more than one of these categories are accounted for, to the extent possible.