World Development Indicators

Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of asylum: Burkina Faso

Most recent
40,996 (2025)
Earliest
70 (1983)
Highest
49,990 (1994)
Years reported
43
Member state
Burkina Faso at the United Nations
025,00050,0001983: 701984: 1001985: 901986: 2201987: 2701988: 2601989: 3601990: 3501991: 3201992: 5,6701993: 6,5971994: 49,9901995: 29,7771996: 28,3811997: 1,7991998: 5621999: 6722000: 6922001: 4572002: 4572003: 4662004: 4942005: 5132006: 5122007: 5352008: 5562009: 5432010: 5302011: 5492012: 39,3042013: 29,2332014: 31,8942015: 34,0172016: 32,5512017: 24,1522018: 25,1202019: 25,8692020: 20,2522021: 25,0102022: 34,3752023: 37,7352024: 39,9152025: 40,99619832025
Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of asylum, 1983–2025. Bars, not a line: a line drawn across a year the source does not report would invent an observation a reader could not tell from a measured one.

Every year reported

YearRefugees hosted (UNHCR mandate)
202540,996
202439,915
202337,735
202234,375
202125,010
202020,252
201925,869
201825,120
201724,152
201632,551
201534,017
201431,894
201329,233
201239,304
2011549
2010530
2009543
2008556
2007535
2006512
2005513
2004494
2003466
2002457
2001457
2000692
1999672
1998562
19971,799
199628,381
199529,777
199449,990
19936,597
19925,670
1991320
1990350
1989360
1988260
1987270
1986220
198590
1984100
198370

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