World Development Indicators

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

Most recent: 25,396 (2025)
Earliest: 10,000 (1976)
Highest: 235,000 (1977)
Years reported: 50
Member state: Angola at the United Nations

Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of asylum, 1976–2025. 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

Year	Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate)
2025	25,396
2024	25,275
2023	25,174
2022	25,514
2021	26,045
2020	25,791
2019	25,793
2018	39,856
2017	41,119
2016	15,547
2015	15,547
2014	15,468
2013	23,771
2012	23,401
2011	16,212
2010	15,142
2009	14,722
2008	12,704
2007	12,064
2006	13,086
2005	13,978
2004	13,963
2003	13,375
2002	12,249
2001	12,245
2000	12,086
1999	13,068
1998	10,603
1997	9,361
1996	9,379
1995	10,878
1994	10,684
1993	10,873
1992	11,002
1991	11,022
1990	11,557
1989	12,899
1988	90,350
1987	91,210
1986	92,250
1985	91,520
1984	92,260
1983	96,280
1982	96,280
1981	91,700
1980	75,000
1979	66,000
1978	141,550
1977	235,000
1976	10,000

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