World Development Indicators

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

Most recent: 2,642 (2025)
Earliest: 5 (1993)
Highest: 2,642 (2025)
Years reported: 33
Member state: Jamaica at the United Nations

Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of origin, 1993–2025. 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 originating (UNHCR mandate)
2025	2,642
2024	2,552
2023	2,128
2022	1,858
2021	2,419
2020	2,526
2019	2,529
2018	2,448
2017	2,224
2016	1,998
2015	1,857
2014	1,682
2013	1,501
2012	1,404
2011	1,248
2010	1,055
2009	908
2008	825
2007	766
2006	661
2005	489
2004	350
2003	260
2002	147
2001	37
2000	37
1999	33
1998	26
1997	21
1996	18
1995	11
1994	10
1993	5

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