Afghanistan Border Monitoring at Unofficial Crossings, 2022

Afghanistan's border monitoring data from 2022, collected by UNHCR. The dataset captures estimates of weekly flows and movement composition at over 50 unofficial crossing points to Iran and Pakistan, derived from interviews with key informants. It is an anonymized version of the original data, published in PDF and web app formats.

Use Cases

• Modeling refugee movement patterns based on estimated weekly flows.
• Assessing barriers to asylum and international protection based on interview findings.
• Analyzing the prevalence of unofficial versus official border crossings for movements to Iran and Pakistan.
• Mapping regional displacement trends based on data from Kunduz, Jalalabad, Herat, Gardez, Mazar, and Kandahar field locations.

Strengths

• Data covers over 50 specific locations across multiple Afghan provinces.
• Findings include specific percentages, such as 84% of movements to Iran occurring via unofficial crossings.
• Data collection involved direct interviews with multiple key informant types (local residents, drivers, officials).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is anonymized, which may limit granularity for certain analyses.

Provenance

Source

UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency

Collection Method

Interviews with key informants at unofficial crossing points.

Time Range

2022

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-25 14:05:12.281237; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Afghanistan, with focus on border areas with Iran and Pakistan.