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Cameroon: Refugees under UNHCR's mandate, by country of origin

140,366people · 2025+1228.6% since 2015

Refugees from the country, wherever they now live, under UNHCR's mandate. Annual figures for Cameroon from 1989 to 2025.

19892025

Every year

YearValue (people)Note
2025140,366
2024109,879
2023110,715
2022147,352
2021125,477
202078,481
201966,241
201845,118
201711,032
201610,344
201510,565
201410,739
201311,410
201213,360
201115,149
201014,952
200914,752
200813,852
200711,499
200610,373
20059,096
20047,631
20036,215
20025,228
20012,729
20002,067
19991,651
19981,349
19972,250
19962,111
19952,018
1994236
1993170
199284
1990100
198960

Source

Published by UNHCR, produced by UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-05.

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UNHCR (2026). Refugees under UNHCR's mandate, by country of origin. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/unhcr-refugees-by-origin (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-05.

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