UNHCR · Conflict & Displacement

El Salvador: Asylum-seekers, by country of origin

108,289people · 2025+244.3% since 2015

People from the country whose claim for asylum elsewhere has not yet been decided. Annual figures for El Salvador from 2000 to 2025.

20002025

Every year

YearValue (people)Note
2025108,289
2024136,774
2023133,042
2022148,758
2021153,246
2020149,542
2019136,277
2018119,271
2017104,901
201662,163
201531,450
201418,035
201311,260
20121,646
20111,633
20101,543
20099,744
200811,152
200718,609
200628,779
200545,203
200491,767
2003128,655
2002151,584
2001164,987
2000176,478

Source

Published by UNHCR, produced by UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-08.

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UNHCR (2026). Asylum-seekers, by country of origin. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/unhcr-asylum-seekers-by-origin (accessed 2026-11-14). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.

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