World Development Indicators

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

Most recent: 24,899 (2025)
Earliest: 8,000 (1977)
Highest: 96,144 (1991)
Years reported: 49
Member state: Djibouti at the United Nations

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.

Every year reported

Year	Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate)
2025	24,899
2024	23,987
2023	23,063
2022	20,383
2021	23,232
2020	21,193
2019	19,639
2018	18,293
2017	17,553
2016	17,683
2015	19,369
2014	20,525
2013	20,010
2012	19,136
2011	20,336
2010	15,102
2009	12,106
2008	9,228
2007	6,653
2006	9,257
2005	10,455
2004	18,033
2003	27,034
2002	21,702
2001	23,172
2000	23,238
1999	23,266
1998	23,577
1997	23,589
1996	25,080
1995	27,310
1994	33,410
1993	34,065
1992	28,000
1991	96,144
1990	77,606
1989	31,409
1988	1,272
1987	13,140
1986	16,720
1985	17,280
1984	16,770
1983	29,170
1982	34,200
1981	31,800
1980	45,310
1979	28,800
1978	20,000
1977	8,000

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