World Development Indicators

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

Most recent: 13,028 (2025)
Earliest: 5 (1988)
Highest: 60,006 (1990)
Years reported: 38
Member state: Senegal at the United Nations

Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of origin, 1988–2025. 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	13,028
2024	12,947
2023	11,924
2022	13,108
2021	15,129
2020	13,986
2019	17,208
2018	18,208
2017	26,584
2016	23,054
2015	21,267
2014	23,110
2013	19,815
2012	18,717
2011	17,710
2010	16,255
2009	16,306
2008	16,007
2007	15,886
2006	15,150
2005	8,662
2004	8,325
2003	8,347
2002	12,069
2001	8,554
2000	11,077
1999	11,598
1998	9,712
1997	17,163
1996	17,630
1995	17,587
1994	25,619
1993	22,594
1992	15,463
1991	25,137
1990	60,006
1989	15,006
1988	5

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