World Development Indicators

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

Most recent: 301,490 (2025)
Earliest: 50 (1987)
Highest: 301,490 (2025)
Years reported: 38 of 39 in the span
Member state: Mauritania at the United Nations

Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of asylum, 1987–2025. 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 38 of the 39 years between 1987 and 2025 for Mauritania. The missing 1 are drawn as gaps, because a gap is what they are.

Every year reported

Year	Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate)
2025	301,490
2024	155,193
2023	112,549
2022	100,981
2021	101,942
2020	93,607
2019	84,900
2018	83,183
2017	77,424
2016	74,146
2015	77,390
2014	75,628
2013	92,766
2012	80,500
2011	26,535
2010	26,709
2009	26,789
2008	27,036
2007	30,465
2006	771
2005	627
2004	473
2003	475
2002	398
2001	363
2000	350
1999	221
1998	26
1997	7,512
1996	15,877
1995	34,392
1994	82,225
1993	51,548
1992	37,500
1991	35,200
1990	60,000
1989	15,000
1987	50

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