World Development Indicators

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

Most recent: 601,818 (2025)
Earliest: 105,023 (2011)
Highest: 601,818 (2025)
Years reported: 15
Member state: South Sudan at the United Nations

Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of asylum, 2011–2025. 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	601,818
2024	514,794
2023	381,236
2022	308,369
2021	333,673
2020	314,438
2019	298,309
2018	291,838
2017	283,405
2016	262,558
2015	263,012
2014	248,152
2013	229,587
2012	202,581
2011	105,023

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