Austria vs Costa Rica: Forcibly displaced people

Austria
308,665
in 2025
Costa Rica
233,727
in 2025
Austria rank
56th
Costa Rica rank
59th

Forcibly displaced people over time

  • Austria
  • Costa Rica
0100.0k200.0k300.0k201020172025

How they compare

Austria currently reports 308,665 against 233,727 in Costa Rica, a difference of 74,938.

That makes Austria's figure about 1.3 times Costa Rica's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 16 shared years of data; in 2010 it was Austria ahead.

Globally, Austria ranks 56th and Costa Rica ranks 59th of 180 countries.

Individual pages

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.