World Development Indicators

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

Most recent
0 (2025)
Earliest
500 (1969)
Highest
125,830 (1990)
Years reported
48 of 57 in the span
Member state
Sierra Leone at the United Nations
0100,000200,0001969: 5001976: 1701977: 1501978: 501979: 601982: 1201983: 1501984: 1801985: 1601986: 1701987: 901988: 601990: 125,8301991: 28,0361992: 5,8661993: 16,2741994: 15,8661995: 4,6771996: 13,5361997: 13,0151998: 9,8621999: 6,5662000: 6,5432001: 10,4982002: 63,4912003: 61,1922004: 65,4332005: 59,9622006: 27,3642007: 8,7942008: 7,8252009: 9,0502010: 8,3622011: 8,0912012: 4,2032013: 2,8162014: 1,3712015: 7602016: 6832017: 6782018: 5912019: 4412020: 3422021: 3452022: 02023: 02024: 02025: 019692025
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 48 of the 57 years between 1969 and 2025 for Sierra Leone. The missing 9 are drawn as gaps, because a gap is what they are.

Every year reported

YearRefugees hosted (UNHCR mandate)
20250
20240
20230
20220
2021345
2020342
2019441
2018591
2017678
2016683
2015760
20141,371
20132,816
20124,203
20118,091
20108,362
20099,050
20087,825
20078,794
200627,364
200559,962
200465,433
200361,192
200263,491
200110,498
20006,543
19996,566
19989,862
199713,015
199613,536
19954,677
199415,866
199316,274
19925,866
199128,036
1990125,830
198860
198790
1986170
1985160
1984180
1983150
1982120
197960
197850
1977150
1976170
1969500

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