World Development Indicators

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

Most recent
4,108 (2025)
Earliest
77 (1990)
Highest
17,216 (1999)
Years reported
36
Member state
The Gambia at the United Nations
010,00020,0001990: 771991: 2401992: 3,6321993: 2,1821994: 2,2061995: 6,5981996: 6,9231997: 7,2761998: 10,3161999: 17,2162000: 12,0162001: 8,1312002: 12,1172003: 7,4612004: 7,3392005: 7,3282006: 13,7582007: 14,8922008: 14,8332009: 10,1132010: 8,3732011: 9,5232012: 9,8462013: 9,5572014: 11,6062015: 7,8512016: 7,9362017: 8,0392018: 4,0272019: 4,3022020: 4,3782021: 4,4182022: 3,6852023: 3,8092024: 3,9642025: 4,10819902025
Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of asylum, 1990–2025. 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

YearRefugees hosted (UNHCR mandate)
20254,108
20243,964
20233,809
20223,685
20214,418
20204,378
20194,302
20184,027
20178,039
20167,936
20157,851
201411,606
20139,557
20129,846
20119,523
20108,373
200910,113
200814,833
200714,892
200613,758
20057,328
20047,339
20037,461
200212,117
20018,131
200012,016
199917,216
199810,316
19977,276
19966,923
19956,598
19942,206
19932,182
19923,632
1991240
199077

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