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Number of refugees and refugee applications from Afghanistan 2001-2019
As of 2019, 105 thousand afghans applied for asylum and 2.7 million for a refugee status. At the beginning of the Afghanistan war in 2001 52 thousand applied for asylum and 3.8 million for a refugee status.