World Development Indicators

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

Most recent: 2,386,499 (2025)
Earliest: 0 (2011)
Highest: 2,439,888 (2017)
Years reported: 15
Member state: South Sudan at the United Nations

Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of origin, 2011–2025. 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	2,386,499
2024	2,290,622
2023	2,292,482
2022	2,295,082
2021	2,362,759
2020	2,188,785
2019	2,234,805
2018	2,285,301
2017	2,439,888
2016	1,436,707
2015	778,722
2014	616,206
2013	114,468
2012	87,007
2011	0

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