Asylum applications and refugees from Thailand

Development of asylum applications from citizens from Thailand 2000 to 2018

The top line represents the total number of asylum applications (first applications + reviews). Below there are the number of recognized refugees (green) and the rejected applications (red).

Asylum applications of refugees from Thailand

The total number of initial and continuing applications refers to the year 2018. Please note that the number of decisions (acceptations or rejections) does not have to sum up with the number of applications, because there may still have been open cases from previous years. Also they dont have to be closed within the same calendar year. In addition, asylum procedures can also be closed, if the applicant disappeared or withdrew the application.

		New Applications					Reviews
Destination		applied	accepted	rejected	acceptance rate		applied	accepted	rejected	acceptance rate
Australia		1,481	0	403	0.0 %		341	0	6	0.0 %
South Korea		341	5	63	7.4 %		0	0	0
United States		42	5	9	35.7 %		35	0	9	0.0 %
Japan		40	0	0			0	0	0
United Kingdom		36	0	27	0.0 %		14	9	6	60.0 %
Sweden		14	0	13	0.0 %		12	0	10	0.0 %
South Africa		10	0	10	0.0 %		0	0	0
Israel		9	0	5	0.0 %		0	0	0
Germany		8	0	6	0.0 %		5	0	0
Totals		1,981	10	536	1.8 %		407	9	31	22.5 %
Asylum applications of foreign refugees in Thailand Thailand is not only a country from which many people escape. There are also refugees from other countries, who apply for asylum here and hope for a better future. Only in the year 2018 there have been 1,143 asylum applications from refugees of other countries. The most successful have been the refugees from Afghanistan and from Burma.
		New Applications					Reviews
Origin		applied	accepted	rejected	acceptance rate		applied	accepted	rejected	acceptance rate
Vietnam		497	220	137	61.6 %		107	48	134	26.4 %
Cambodia		232	47	124	27.5 %		56	0	39	0.0 %
Pakistan		141	96	40	70.6 %		100	62	475	11.5 %
Afghanistan		56	49	0	100.0 %		0	0	0
Iraq		49	7	0	100.0 %		0	0	0
China		38	21	10	67.7 %		0	0	8	0.0 %
Iran		28	13	13	50.0 %		8	0	20	0.0 %
Somalia		22	30	46	39.5 %		43	0	35	0.0 %
Sri Lanka		18	0	7	0.0 %		10	0	15	0.0 %
Burma		10	10	0	100.0 %		0	0	0
Syria		10	9	0	100.0 %		0	0	0
unknown		8	8	0	100.0 %		0	0	5	0.0 %
Egypt		7	0	8	0.0 %		0	0	0
Cameroon		6	0	0			0	0	0
Sudan		6	0	0			0	0	0
Congo (Dem. Republic)		5	0	0			0	0	0
Ethiopia		5	0	0			0	0	5	0.0 %
Guinea		5	0	0			0	0	0
Laos		0	0	7	0.0 %		5	0	0
Russia		0	0	0			7	0	0
Totals		1,143	510	392	56.5 %		336	110	736	13.0 %

National migrant stock from 1980 to 2015

In 2015 a total of 3,913,258 migrants lived in Thailand. These are all residents who live permanently in the country but were born in another country. The amount includes granted refugees but no asylum seekers. The data are based on the results of censuses, as well as on estimates and projections of the United Nations Population Division.


(Values of the graph in millions of immigrants)