World Development Indicators

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

Most recent
8,570 (2025)
Earliest
50 (1980)
Highest
237,713 (1992)
Years reported
46
Member state
Zimbabwe at the United Nations
0125,000250,0001980: 501981: 5,1001982: 20,2001983: 50,3901984: 50,5001985: 62,8001986: 65,1801987: 123,6101988: 174,4831989: 175,3501990: 190,9501991: 197,6271992: 237,7131993: 100,4761994: 2,1941995: 5151996: 5941997: 8001998: 1,6561999: 2,0712000: 4,1272001: 8,7082002: 9,4332003: 12,7212004: 6,8752005: 13,8502006: 3,5192007: 3,9842008: 3,4652009: 3,9912010: 4,4322011: 4,5592012: 4,3542013: 6,3872014: 6,0762015: 6,9432016: 7,4232017: 7,5662018: 7,7952019: 8,9562020: 9,2612021: 9,4832022: 10,4752023: 10,1142024: 9,2402025: 8,57019802025
Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of asylum, 1980–2025. 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)
20258,570
20249,240
202310,114
202210,475
20219,483
20209,261
20198,956
20187,795
20177,566
20167,423
20156,943
20146,076
20136,387
20124,354
20114,559
20104,432
20093,991
20083,465
20073,984
20063,519
200513,850
20046,875
200312,721
20029,433
20018,708
20004,127
19992,071
19981,656
1997800
1996594
1995515
19942,194
1993100,476
1992237,713
1991197,627
1990190,950
1989175,350
1988174,483
1987123,610
198665,180
198562,800
198450,500
198350,390
198220,200
19815,100
198050

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