World Development Indicators

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

Most recent: 123,848 (2025)
Earliest: 50 (1976)
Highest: 123,848 (2025)
Years reported: 50
Member state: Nigeria 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	123,848
2024	96,387
2023	69,940
2022	91,275
2021	77,132
2020	66,056
2019	54,157
2018	34,727
2017	1,910
2016	1,357
2015	1,387
2014	1,237
2013	1,688
2012	3,151
2011	8,803
2010	8,744
2009	9,129
2008	10,127
2007	8,463
2006	8,761
2005	9,017
2004	8,395
2003	9,173
2002	7,353
2001	7,201
2000	7,271
1999	6,942
1998	6,782
1997	9,071
1996	8,486
1995	8,118
1994	6,025
1993	4,819
1992	4,782
1991	3,573
1990	3,571
1989	3,781
1988	5,173
1987	5,100
1986	4,760
1985	5,880
1984	4,570
1983	4,620
1982	5,240
1981	89,570
1980	100,000
1979	400
1978	370
1977	300
1976	50

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