World Development Indicators

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

Most recent: 182 (2025)
Earliest: 100 (1972)
Highest: 20,730 (1989)
Years reported: 44 of 54 in the span
Member state: El Salvador at the United Nations

Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of asylum, 1972–2025. 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.

The World Bank reports 44 of the 54 years between 1972 and 2025 for El Salvador. The missing 10 are drawn as gaps, because a gap is what they are.

Every year reported

Year	Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate)
2025	182
2024	120
2023	106
2022	104
2021	98
2020	48
2019	48
2018	44
2017	40
2016	41
2015	46
2014	33
2013	42
2012	43
2011	39
2010	39
2009	32
2008	34
2007	39
2006	39
2005	51
2004	235
2003	246
2002	74
2001	69
2000	57
1999	21
1998	30
1997	106
1996	148
1995	153
1994	153
1993	161
1992	19,903
1991	20,099
1990	20,300
1989	20,730
1988	20,350
1987	300
1986	310
1985	210
1980	390
1979	0
1972	100

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