World Development Indicators

Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of origin: Benin

Most recent: 1,279 (2025)
Earliest: 100 (1976)
Highest: 1,279 (2025)
Years reported: 40 of 50 in the span
Member state: Benin at the United Nations

Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of origin, 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.

The World Bank reports 40 of the 50 years between 1976 and 2025 for Benin. The missing 10 are drawn as gaps, because a gap is what they are.

Every year reported

Year	Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate)
2025	1,279
2024	1,064
2023	905
2022	811
2021	730
2020	606
2019	721
2018	659
2017	572
2016	479
2015	400
2014	330
2013	294
2012	451
2011	460
2010	438
2009	409
2008	315
2007	265
2006	207
2005	402
2004	299
2003	274
2002	228
2001	52
2000	47
1999	44
1998	45
1997	41
1996	42
1995	50
1994	72
1993	62
1989	60
1988	50
1987	50
1986	50
1979	200
1978	200
1976	100

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