World Development Indicators

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

Most recent: 21,050 (2025)
Earliest: 20,000 (1969)
Highest: 150,095 (1993)
Years reported: 51 of 57 in the span
Member state: Ghana at the United Nations

Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of asylum, 1969–2025. 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 51 of the 57 years between 1969 and 2025 for Ghana. The missing 6 are drawn as gaps, because a gap is what they are.

Every year reported

Year	Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate)
2025	21,050
2024	7,479
2023	7,057
2022	8,531
2021	11,894
2020	12,406
2019	11,946
2018	11,896
2017	12,153
2016	11,866
2015	17,404
2014	18,448
2013	18,681
2012	16,012
2011	13,588
2010	13,828
2009	13,655
2008	18,201
2007	34,955
2006	44,938
2005	53,534
2004	42,049
2003	43,948
2002	33,506
2001	11,787
2000	12,714
1999	13,256
1998	14,558
1997	22,853
1996	35,613
1995	83,201
1994	113,665
1993	150,095
1992	12,114
1991	8,128
1990	8,123
1989	80
1988	140
1987	150
1986	160
1985	120
1984	90
1983	90
1982	100
1979	300
1978	70
1977	170
1976	180
1975	130
1971	70
1969	20,000

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