World Development Indicators

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

Most recent
8,925 (2025)
Earliest
8 (1988)
Highest
490,047 (1999)
Years reported
38
Member state
Sierra Leone at the United Nations
0250,000500,0001988: 81989: 81990: 81991: 142,6141992: 253,5911993: 311,1811994: 275,2981995: 379,4911996: 375,1001997: 329,3221998: 406,0701999: 490,0472000: 402,7982001: 179,0972002: 141,4732003: 70,5712004: 41,7972005: 40,4732006: 42,8492007: 32,1142008: 32,5172009: 15,3982010: 11,2612011: 7,9852012: 6,1912013: 5,3052014: 4,9882015: 4,9002016: 4,6782017: 4,4962018: 4,8462019: 5,2882020: 5,7342021: 6,6152022: 6,9392023: 7,4452024: 8,0422025: 8,92519882025
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

YearRefugees originating (UNHCR mandate)
20258,925
20248,042
20237,445
20226,939
20216,615
20205,734
20195,288
20184,846
20174,496
20164,678
20154,900
20144,988
20135,305
20126,191
20117,985
201011,261
200915,398
200832,517
200732,114
200642,849
200540,473
200441,797
200370,571
2002141,473
2001179,097
2000402,798
1999490,047
1998406,070
1997329,322
1996375,100
1995379,491
1994275,298
1993311,181
1992253,591
1991142,614
19908
19898
19888

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