World Development Indicators

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

Most recent: 554,891 (2025)
Earliest: 400 (1979)
Highest: 559,853 (2023)
Years reported: 47
Member state: Eritrea at the United Nations

Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of origin, 1979–2025. 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	554,891
2024	551,296
2023	559,853
2022	512,674
2021	511,911
2020	524,738
2019	504,300
2018	507,260
2017	486,209
2016	457,247
2015	407,428
2014	363,081
2013	308,210
2012	285,356
2011	251,941
2010	222,457
2009	209,164
2008	186,392
2007	208,747
2006	193,738
2005	144,062
2004	131,108
2003	124,111
2002	318,167
2001	333,222
2000	376,847
1999	347,134
1998	346,779
1997	319,076
1996	332,222
1995	286,711
1994	422,432
1993	427,208
1992	503,200
1991	500,633
1990	43
1989	43
1988	133
1987	167
1986	177
1985	1,385
1984	1,385
1983	1,385
1982	1,585
1981	1,542
1980	542
1979	400

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