World Development Indicators

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

Most recent
1,414 (2025)
Earliest
135 (1970)
Highest
55,580 (1992)
Years reported
56
Member state
Eswatini at the United Nations
050,000100,0001970: 1351971: 501972: 801973: 1001974: 501975: 501976: 801977: 1351978: 7201979: 5,2501980: 5,4701981: 5,6101982: 7,3501983: 6,2301984: 8,9801985: 10,7701986: 12,1301987: 14,5501988: 29,4301989: 34,9081990: 42,0741991: 49,5691992: 55,5801993: 48,8901994: 6451995: 7121996: 5751997: 5911998: 5891999: 6132000: 6902001: 6902002: 6532003: 6852004: 7032005: 7632006: 7522007: 7892008: 7752009: 7572010: 7572011: 7572012: 4992013: 5012014: 5112015: 6942016: 7252017: 7902018: 8742019: 9402020: 9452021: 8952022: 1,1732023: 1,2022024: 1,2952025: 1,41419702025
Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of asylum, 1970–2025. 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)
20251,414
20241,295
20231,202
20221,173
2021895
2020945
2019940
2018874
2017790
2016725
2015694
2014511
2013501
2012499
2011757
2010757
2009757
2008775
2007789
2006752
2005763
2004703
2003685
2002653
2001690
2000690
1999613
1998589
1997591
1996575
1995712
1994645
199348,890
199255,580
199149,569
199042,074
198934,908
198829,430
198714,550
198612,130
198510,770
19848,980
19836,230
19827,350
19815,610
19805,470
19795,250
1978720
1977135
197680
197550
197450
1973100
197280
197150
1970135

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