World Development Indicators

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

Most recent
601,818 (2025)
Earliest
105,023 (2011)
Highest
601,818 (2025)
Years reported
15
Member state
South Sudan at the United Nations
0500,0001,000,0002011: 105,0232012: 202,5812013: 229,5872014: 248,1522015: 263,0122016: 262,5582017: 283,4052018: 291,8382019: 298,3092020: 314,4382021: 333,6732022: 308,3692023: 381,2362024: 514,7942025: 601,81820112025
Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of asylum, 2011–2025. 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)
2025601,818
2024514,794
2023381,236
2022308,369
2021333,673
2020314,438
2019298,309
2018291,838
2017283,405
2016262,558
2015263,012
2014248,152
2013229,587
2012202,581
2011105,023

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