World Development Indicators

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

Most recent: 171,142 (2025)
Earliest: 12,000 (1961)
Highest: 883,250 (1994)
Years reported: 65
Member state: Tanzania at the United Nations

Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of asylum, 1961–2025. 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	171,142
2024	176,859
2023	188,953
2022	206,229
2021	207,101
2020	234,645
2019	242,171
2018	278,322
2017	308,528
2016	281,498
2015	211,845
2014	88,492
2013	102,099
2012	101,021
2011	131,243
2010	109,286
2009	118,731
2008	321,908
2007	435,630
2006	485,295
2005	548,824
2004	602,088
2003	649,770
2002	689,373
2001	646,899
2000	680,862
1999	622,203
1998	543,881
1997	570,367
1996	498,732
1995	829,671
1994	883,250
1993	564,520
1992	292,148
1991	288,103
1990	265,184
1989	265,128
1988	265,154
1987	266,200
1986	223,500
1985	214,480
1984	179,910
1983	180,100
1982	158,960
1981	164,180
1980	159,610
1979	160,820
1978	160,960
1977	164,610
1976	154,000
1975	171,160
1974	193,190
1973	180,860
1972	165,000
1971	71,240
1970	71,500
1969	54,550
1968	46,000
1967	39,800
1966	33,950
1965	29,000
1964	25,000
1963	12,000
1962	12,000
1961	12,000

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