UNHCR Refugees MCP

An MCP server that provides access to UNHCR Refugee Data Finder statistics, including refugee, IDP, and stateless populations since 1951, asylum applications and decisions since 2000, and returns and resettlement since 1959. It supports querying annual figures by country and running SQL over large datasets without requiring an API key.

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What you can do with it

Query refugee, IDP, and stateless population statistics by country and year
Retrieve asylum applications and decisions data since 2000
Access refugee returns and resettlement figures since 1959
Run SQL queries over staged UNHCR dataframe datasets

Source and maintenance

Community listingRegistry 0.2.0

mcp-registry: io.github.cyanheads/unhcr-refugees-mcp-server@0.2.0 Source repository

Maintenance checked: Oct 31, 2026, 10:59 PM UTC

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@cyanheads/unhcr-refugees-mcp-server 0.2.0

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@cyanheads/unhcr-refugees-mcp-server package definition

{
  "version": "0.2.0",
  "transport": "stdio",
  "identifier": "@cyanheads/unhcr-refugees-mcp-server",
  "runtimeHint": "npx",
  "registryType": "npm",
  "registryBaseUrl": "https://registry.npmjs.org",
  "environmentVariables": [
    {
      "name": "UNHCR_REQUESTS_PER_SECOND",
      "format": "number",
      "default": "4",
      "description": "Upstream request starts per second for the whole process (1–10)."
    },
    {
      "name": "UNHCR_MAX_ROWS",
      "format": "number",
      "default": "150000",
      "description": "Most upstream rows one tool call fetches (10000–500000); a larger result stops at the cap with complete: false."
    },
    {
      "name": "UNHCR_CACHE_MAX_MB",
      "format": "number",
      "default": "64",
      "description": "Response-cache budget in MB; 0 disables the cache."
    },
    {
      "name": "UNHCR_DATASET_TTL_SECONDS",
      "format": "number",
      "default": "86400",
      "description": "Per-table TTL for staged dataframes, in seconds (minimum 60)."
    },
    {
      "name": "UNHCR_DATAFRAME_DROP_ENABLED",
      "format": "boolean",
      "default": "false",
      "description": "Set to true to register unhcr_dataframe_drop; off by default, the per-table TTL reclaims staged tables."
    },
    {
      "name": "MCP_LOG_LEVEL",
      "format": "string",
      "default": "info",
      "description": "Sets the minimum log level for output (e.g., 'debug', 'info', 'warn')."
    }
  ]
}

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Cursor

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Cursor configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "unhcr-refugees-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/unhcr-refugees-mcp-server@0.2.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "UNHCR_REQUESTS_PER_SECOND": "<YOUR_UNHCR_REQUESTS_PER_SECOND>",
        "UNHCR_MAX_ROWS": "<YOUR_UNHCR_MAX_ROWS>",
        "UNHCR_CACHE_MAX_MB": "<YOUR_UNHCR_CACHE_MAX_MB>",
        "UNHCR_DATASET_TTL_SECONDS": "<YOUR_UNHCR_DATASET_TTL_SECONDS>",
        "UNHCR_DATAFRAME_DROP_ENABLED": "<YOUR_UNHCR_DATAFRAME_DROP_ENABLED>",
        "MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "<YOUR_MCP_LOG_LEVEL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cline

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Cline configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "unhcr-refugees-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/unhcr-refugees-mcp-server@0.2.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "UNHCR_REQUESTS_PER_SECOND": "<YOUR_UNHCR_REQUESTS_PER_SECOND>",
        "UNHCR_MAX_ROWS": "<YOUR_UNHCR_MAX_ROWS>",
        "UNHCR_CACHE_MAX_MB": "<YOUR_UNHCR_CACHE_MAX_MB>",
        "UNHCR_DATASET_TTL_SECONDS": "<YOUR_UNHCR_DATASET_TTL_SECONDS>",
        "UNHCR_DATAFRAME_DROP_ENABLED": "<YOUR_UNHCR_DATAFRAME_DROP_ENABLED>",
        "MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "<YOUR_MCP_LOG_LEVEL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

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VS Code configuration

{
  "servers": {
    "unhcr-refugees-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/unhcr-refugees-mcp-server@0.2.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "UNHCR_REQUESTS_PER_SECOND": "<YOUR_UNHCR_REQUESTS_PER_SECOND>",
        "UNHCR_MAX_ROWS": "<YOUR_UNHCR_MAX_ROWS>",
        "UNHCR_CACHE_MAX_MB": "<YOUR_UNHCR_CACHE_MAX_MB>",
        "UNHCR_DATASET_TTL_SECONDS": "<YOUR_UNHCR_DATASET_TTL_SECONDS>",
        "UNHCR_DATAFRAME_DROP_ENABLED": "<YOUR_UNHCR_DATAFRAME_DROP_ENABLED>",
        "MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "<YOUR_MCP_LOG_LEVEL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

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Claude Desktop configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "unhcr-refugees-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/unhcr-refugees-mcp-server@0.2.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "UNHCR_REQUESTS_PER_SECOND": "<YOUR_UNHCR_REQUESTS_PER_SECOND>",
        "UNHCR_MAX_ROWS": "<YOUR_UNHCR_MAX_ROWS>",
        "UNHCR_CACHE_MAX_MB": "<YOUR_UNHCR_CACHE_MAX_MB>",
        "UNHCR_DATASET_TTL_SECONDS": "<YOUR_UNHCR_DATASET_TTL_SECONDS>",
        "UNHCR_DATAFRAME_DROP_ENABLED": "<YOUR_UNHCR_DATAFRAME_DROP_ENABLED>",
        "MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "<YOUR_MCP_LOG_LEVEL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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