World Development Indicators

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

Most recent
35,241 (2025)
Earliest
100,000 (1986)
Highest
1.0585e+06 (1992)
Years reported
40
Member state
Malawi at the United Nations
01,000,0002,000,0001986: 100,0001987: 401,6401988: 628,1331989: 822,5031990: 926,7251991: 981,8121992: 1,058,4981993: 713,6051994: 90,2421995: 1,0181996: 1,2671997: 2781998: 1,2411999: 1,6922000: 3,9002001: 6,2002002: 2,1702003: 3,2082004: 3,6822005: 4,2412006: 3,9432007: 2,9272008: 4,1742009: 5,4362010: 5,7382011: 6,3062012: 6,5462013: 5,7942014: 5,8712015: 9,0182016: 9,3862017: 8,9772018: 13,7832019: 14,0872020: 14,8922021: 21,5292022: 35,1622023: 35,2012024: 35,5102025: 35,24119862025
Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of asylum, 1986–2025. 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)
202535,241
202435,510
202335,201
202235,162
202121,529
202014,892
201914,087
201813,783
20178,977
20169,386
20159,018
20145,871
20135,794
20126,546
20116,306
20105,738
20095,436
20084,174
20072,927
20063,943
20054,241
20043,682
20033,208
20022,170
20016,200
20003,900
19991,692
19981,241
1997278
19961,267
19951,018
199490,242
1993713,605
19921.0585e+06
1991981,812
1990926,725
1989822,503
1988628,133
1987401,640
1986100,000

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