World Development Indicators

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

Most recent: 384 (2025)
Earliest: 5 (1989)
Highest: 384 (2025)
Years reported: 37
Member state: Botswana at the United Nations

Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of origin, 1989–2025. 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	384
2024	249
2023	150
2022	81
2021	122
2020	191
2019	228
2018	289
2017	279
2016	265
2015	306
2014	234
2013	165
2012	125
2011	88
2010	56
2009	32
2008	29
2007	16
2006	10
2005	0
2004	5
2003	5
2002	5
2001	0
2000	5
1999	10
1998	16
1997	16
1996	22
1995	27
1994	22
1993	5
1992	5
1991	5
1990	5
1989	5

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