World Development Indicators

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

Most recent
20,967 (2025)
Earliest
500,000 (1977)
Highest
2e+06 (1980)
Years reported
48 of 49 in the span
Member state
Somalia at the United Nations
01,000,0002,000,0001977: 500,0001978: 600,0001979: 1,175,1901980: 2,000,0001981: 700,0001982: 700,0001983: 700,0001984: 701,3001985: 812,0001986: 700,0001987: 840,1001988: 834,0001989: 769,6301990: 460,0001992: 4801993: 3991994: 3891995: 6281996: 7001997: 6221998: 3381999: 1302000: 5552001: 5872002: 1932003: 3662004: 3622005: 4982006: 6692007: 9032008: 1,8422009: 1,8192010: 1,9342011: 2,1002012: 2,3072013: 2,4262014: 2,7322015: 8,0812016: 11,5792017: 14,5652018: 16,7382019: 17,8822020: 11,2202021: 13,8042022: 16,0232023: 17,7702024: 19,5032025: 20,96719772025
Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of asylum, 1977–2025. 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.

The World Bank reports 48 of the 49 years between 1977 and 2025 for Somalia. The missing 1 are drawn as gaps, because a gap is what they are.

Every year reported

YearRefugees hosted (UNHCR mandate)
202520,967
202419,503
202317,770
202216,023
202113,804
202011,220
201917,882
201816,738
201714,565
201611,579
20158,081
20142,732
20132,426
20122,307
20112,100
20101,934
20091,819
20081,842
2007903
2006669
2005498
2004362
2003366
2002193
2001587
2000555
1999130
1998338
1997622
1996700
1995628
1994389
1993399
1992480
1990460,000
1989769,630
1988834,000
1987840,100
1986700,000
1985812,000
1984701,300
1983700,000
1982700,000
1981700,000
19802e+06
19791.17519e+06
1978600,000
1977500,000

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